Job
15 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered
3 Arguing with unserviceable talk
and useless phrases?
5 Because your guilt is tutoring your mouth
and you choose artful men’s language.
6 Your own mouth shall prove you in the wrong, not I,
and your own lips shall testify against you.
7 Are you the first of men to be born?
were you brought forth before the hills?
8 Did you listen into God’s private conference
and sequester some wisdom for yourself?
9 What do you know that we do not,
perceive that we are not aware of?
10 We have among us graybeard and patriarch,
further on in years than your father.
11 Are Deity’s consolations too little for you,
and talk that is easy on you?
14 What is man that he should be pure
and that one born of woman should be in the right?
15 Here, he does not put trust in his holy ones
and sky is not pure to his eyes,
16 To say nothing of an abominable and degenerate being,
a man who drinks rascality like water.
17 “I will show you; give me a hearing;
I have recognized this and will tell you about it,
18 What wise men state
and their fathers have not kept back.
19 They had the country given to them alone,
and no stranger came through among them.
20 All a wrong-doer’s life he is in expectation,
the number of years that are laid up for the violent man.
21 Sounds of dread are in his ears,
in peace there is a ravager coming to him;
24* A day of darkness will overwhelm him,
distress and hard straits will overpower him,
like a king ready for the onslaught,
25 Because he stretched out his hand against Deity
and blustered against Shaddai,
28 And planted himself in extirpated cities,
houses that were never to be lived in,
which had been made ready to become heaps of stones,
30* He shall not get out of darkness; flame shall dry up his shoot,
and his buds shall blow off in the wind;
32 His fronds shall wither untimely
and his new fronds not grow verdant;
33 He shall blast his berries like a grapevine
and drop his blossoms like an olive-tree.
34 For a godless man’s company is stony ground,
and fire has devoured the tents of bribery;