< Job 15 >

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
wise to answer knowledge spirit: breath and to fill east belly: abdomen his
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
to rebuke in/on/with word: speaking not be useful and speech not to gain in/on/with them
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
also you(m. s.) to break fear and to dimish meditation to/for face: before God
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
for to teach/learn iniquity: crime your lip your and to choose tongue prudent
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
be wicked you lip your and not I and lips your to answer in/on/with you
7 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
first man to beget and to/for face: before hill to twist: give birth
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
in/on/with counsel god to hear: hear and to dimish to(wards) you wisdom
9 What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
what? to know and not to know to understand and not with us he/she/it
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
also be gray also aged in/on/with us mighty from father your day: old
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
little from you consolation God and word to/for softly with you
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
what? to take: take you heart your and what? to flash [emph?] eye your
13 that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
for to return: turn back to(wards) God spirit your and to come out: speak from lip your speech
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
what? human for to clean and for to justify to beget woman
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
look! (in/on/with holy his *QK) not be faithful and heaven not be clean in/on/with eye: seeing his
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
also for to abhor and to corrupt man to drink like/as water injustice
17 “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
to explain you to hear: hear to/for me and this to see and to recount
18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
which wise to tell and not to hide from father their
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
to/for them to/for alone them to give: give [the] land: country/planet and not to pass be a stranger in/on/with midst their
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
all day wicked he/she/it to twist: writh in pain and number year to treasure to/for ruthless
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
voice: sound dread in/on/with ear his in/on/with peace: well-being to ruin to come (in): come him
22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
not be faithful to return: return from darkness (and to watch *Qk) he/she/it to(wards) sword
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
to wander he/she/it to/for food: bread where? to know for to establish: prepare in/on/with hand his day darkness
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
to terrify him distress and distress to prevail him like/as king ready to/for battle
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
for to stretch to(wards) God hand his and to(wards) Almighty to prevail
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
to run: run to(wards) him in/on/with neck in/on/with thickness back/rim/brow shield his
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
for to cover face his in/on/with fat his and to make excess fat upon loin
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
and to dwell city to hide house: home not to dwell to/for them which be ready to/for heap
29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
not to enrich and not to arise: establish strength: rich his and not to stretch to/for land: country/planet gain their
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.
not to turn aside: depart from darkness shoot his to wither flame and to turn aside: depart in/on/with spirit: breath lip his
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
not be faithful (in/on/with vanity: vain *QK) to go astray for vanity: vain to be exchange his
32 It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
in/on/with not day his to fill and branch his not be fresh
33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
to injure like/as vine unripe grape his and to throw like/as olive flower his
34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
for congregation profane solitary and fire to eat tent bribe
35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”
to conceive trouble and to beget evil: wickedness and belly: womb their to establish: prepare deceit

< Job 15 >