Job · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Job 15 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3 Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5 For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
7 Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?
7 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
8 Hast thou heard God’s counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?
9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
10 There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
11 Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12 Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things?
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13 Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth?
13 that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14 What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16 How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 I will shew thee, hear me: and I will tell thee what I have seen.
17 “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
18 Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.
18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed among them.
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
20 The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
22 He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.
22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26 He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
27 Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides.
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28 He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.
29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own month.
30 He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
31 He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away.
32 It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
33 He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
34 For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth deceits.
35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
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Eliphaz the Temanite
One of Job's three friends who came to sympathize and comfort him, and whom the LORD rebuked at the end of the book for not speaking rightly of Him.
Cited in the guide: Job 2:11; Job 4:1; Job 15:1
Cross references (35)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Job 2:11; Job 42:7; Job 4:1; Job 42:9; Job 22:1
- 2 Job 6:26; Job 8:2; Hosea 12:1; Job 11:2–3; James 3:13
- 3 Matthew 12:36–37; Colossians 4:6; Malachi 3:13–15; Job 26:1–3; 1 Timothy 6:4–5
- 4 Romans 3:31; Psalm 36:1–3; Job 6:14; 1 Chronicles 10:13–14; Galatians 2:21
- 5 Jeremiah 9:3–5; James 1:26; Luke 6:45; Psalm 52:2–4; Jeremiah 9:8
- 6 Luke 19:22; Matthew 12:37; Job 9:20; Job 40:8; Job 34:5–9
- 7 Psalm 90:2; Job 38:4–41; Job 12:12; Proverbs 8:22–25; Genesis 4:1
- 8 Romans 11:34; Jeremiah 23:18; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Psalm 25:14; Matthew 11:25
- 9 Job 13:2; 2 Corinthians 11:5; 2 Corinthians 10:7; Job 26:3–4; Job 12:3
- 10 Job 32:6–7; Job 12:12; Job 8:8–10; Deuteronomy 32:7; Proverbs 16:31
- 11 2 Corinthians 1:3–5; Job 13:2; Job 5:8–26; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Corinthians 7:6
- 12 Psalm 35:19; Mark 7:21–22; Job 17:2; Job 11:13; James 1:14–15
- 13 James 3:2–6; Job 15:25–27; Psalm 34:13; Job 12:6; Malachi 3:13
- 14 Ecclesiastes 7:20; Job 14:4; Proverbs 20:9; Romans 7:18; Job 25:4–6
- 15 Job 25:5; Job 4:18; Isaiah 6:2–5; Job 5:1
- 16 Proverbs 19:28; Job 34:7; Romans 3:9–19; Titus 3:3; Psalm 53:3
- 17 Job 33:1; Job 13:5–6; Job 5:27; Job 34:2; Job 36:2
- 18 Job 8:8; Psalm 71:18; Isaiah 38:19; Psalm 78:3–6; Job 15:10
- 19 Joel 3:17; Deuteronomy 32:8; Genesis 10:25; Genesis 10:32
- 20 James 5:1–6; Job 27:13; Job 24:1; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 90:12
- 21 Job 18:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Leviticus 26:36; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Job 1:13–19
- 22 Job 20:24–25; Job 27:14; Isaiah 8:21–22; Matthew 27:5; Job 19:29
- 23 Job 18:12; Psalm 109:10; Psalm 59:15; Amos 5:20; Ecclesiastes 11:8
- 24 Proverbs 6:11; Proverbs 24:34; Romans 2:9; Job 6:2–4; Psalm 119:143
- 25 Psalm 52:7; Job 9:4; Daniel 5:23; Psalm 73:9; Malachi 3:13
- 26 2 Chronicles 32:13–17; 2 Chronicles 28:22; Genesis 49:8; Psalm 18:40; Job 16:12
- 27 Psalm 17:10; Psalm 73:7; Jeremiah 5:28; Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 32:15
- 28 Job 3:14; Jeremiah 51:37; Micah 7:18; Jeremiah 26:18; Jeremiah 9:11
- 29 Job 27:16–17; James 1:11; Luke 12:19–21; Psalm 49:16–17; Luke 16:19–22
- 30 Job 4:9; Job 15:22; Job 18:5–6; Job 20:26; Matthew 25:41
- 31 Isaiah 59:4; Galatians 6:3; Psalm 62:10; Galatians 6:7–8; Hosea 8:7
- 32 Ecclesiastes 7:17; Psalm 55:23; Job 22:16; Hosea 9:16; Isaiah 27:11
- 33 Deuteronomy 28:39–40; Isaiah 33:9; Revelation 6:13
- 34 Job 8:13; Job 27:8; Micah 7:2; Job 8:22; Matthew 24:51
- 35 Psalm 7:14; Hosea 10:13; Isaiah 59:4–5; James 1:15; Galatians 6:7–8
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