Job 15 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?
2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3 Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5 For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6 Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against 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 borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
7 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
8 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?
9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
10 With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
11 Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12 Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13 That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes 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 cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane 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 filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17 I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:
17 “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
18 Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:
18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19 To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them.
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
20 The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21 A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
22 He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.
22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23 He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.
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 made him selfe strong against the Almightie.
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
26 Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
27 Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28 Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof 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 neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.
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 beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32 His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.
32 It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
33 God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.
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 shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35 For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.
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)
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- 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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