Job 15

1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

וַיַּעַן אֱלִיפַז הַתֵּימָנִי וַיֹּאמַר׃ (1036)

See also: Job 2:11, Job 42:7, Job 4:1, Job 22:1, Job 42:9

2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

הֶחָכָם יַעֲנֶה דַעַת־רוּחַ וִימַלֵּא קָדִים בִּטְנֹו׃ (1204)

See also: Job 6:26, Job 8:2, Job 16:3, Isaiah 44:20, Job 11:2-3, Job 11:3, Job 12:2, Job 13:2, Job 24:25, Job 33:3, Job 34:35, Hosea 12:1, James 3:13

3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

הֹוכֵחַ בְּדָבָר לֹא יִסְכֹּון וּמִלִּים לֹא־יֹועִיל בָּם׃ (749)

See also: Titus 3:9, Matthew 12:36-37, Colossians 4:6, Job 13:4-5, Job 16:2-3, Job 26:1-3, Malachi 3:13-15, 1 Timothy 6:4-5

4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

אַף־אַתָּה תָּפֵר יִרְאָה וְתִגְרַע יחָה לִפְנֵי־אֵל׃ (2286)

See also: Colossians 4:2, Job 19:3, Job 36:13, Romans 3:31, 1 Chronicles 10:13-14, Job 4:5-6, Job 5:8, Job 6:14, Job 27:10, Job 33:32, Psalms 36:1-3, Psalms 119:126, Jeremiah 36:24, Hosea 7:14, Amos 6:10, Zephaniah 1:6, Luke 18:1, Galatians 2:21

5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

כִּי יְאַלֵּף עֲוֹנְךָ פִיךָ וְתִבְחַר לְשֹׁון עֲרוּמִים׃ (1775)

6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

יַרְשִׁיעֲךָ פִיךָ וְלֹא־אָנִי וּשְׂפָתֶיךָ יַעֲנוּ־בָךְ׃ (1792)

See also: Luke 19:22, Job 9:20, Matthew 12:37, Psalms 64:8, Luke 11:19, Joshua 24:22, Job 33:8-12, Job 34:5-9, Job 35:2-3, Job 40:8, Job 42:3, 2 Samuel 1:16, 1 Kings 20:40, Job 9:31, Job 18:7, Matthew 21:31, Matthew 26:65

7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

הֲרִאישֹׁון אָדָם תִּוָּלֵד וְלִפְנֵי גְבָעֹות חֹולָלְתָּ׃ (2188)

See also: Psalms 90:2, Job 12:12, Job 38:4-41, Job 38:21, Proverbs 8:22-25, Proverbs 8:25, Genesis 4:1, Job 15:10, Job 38:12, Job 32:6

8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

הַבְסֹוד אֱלֹוהַ תִּשְׁמָע וְתִגְרַע אֵלֶיךָ חָכְמָה׃ (1742)

9What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

מַה־יָּדַעְתָּ וְלֹא נֵדָע תָּבִין וְלֹא־עִמָּנוּ הוּא׃ (1367)

See also: Job 13:2, Psalms 119:100, 2 Corinthians 11:5, Job 5:27, Job 12:3, Job 17:10, Job 26:3-4, 2 Corinthians 10:7, 2 Corinthians 11:21-30

10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

גַּם־שָׂב גַּם־יָשִׁישׁ בָּנוּ כַּבִּיר מֵאָבִיךָ יָמִים׃ (1471)

See also: Job 32:6, Job 12:12, Job 8:8-10, Job 15:7, Ecclesiastes 12:5, Deuteronomy 32:7, Job 12:20, Job 15:18, Job 20:4, Proverbs 16:31, Joel 1:2

11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

הַמְעַט מִמְּךָ תַּנְחֻמֹות אֵל וְדָבָר לָאַט עִמָּךְ׃ (1541)

See also: Job 11:6, Job 13:2, Job 19:3, 2 Corinthians 1:3-5, 1 Kings 22:24, Job 5:8-26, Job 11:13-19, Job 15:8, Job 21:2, Job 36:16, 2 Corinthians 7:6

12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

מַה־יִּקָּחֲךָ לִבֶּךָ וּמַה־יִּרְזְמוּן עֵינֶיךָ׃ (759)

See also: Proverbs 6:13, Psalms 35:19, Mark 7:21-22, Job 11:13, Job 17:2, Acts 5:3-4, Acts 8:22, James 1:14-15, Proverbs 10:10, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Galatians 2:13

13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

כִּי־תָשִׁיב אֶל־אֵל רוּחֶךָ וְהֹצֵאתָ מִפִּיךָ מִלִּין׃ (1820)

See also: Job 15:25-27, James 3:2-6, Job 9:4, Job 10:3, Job 12:6, Psalms 34:13, Malachi 3:13, Romans 8:7-8, James 1:26

14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

מָה־אֱנֹושׁ כִּי־יִזְכֶּה וְכִי־יִצְדַּק יְלוּד אִשָּׁה׃ (1070)

15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

הֵן [בִּקְדֹשֹׁו כ] (בִּקְדֹשָׁיו ק) לֹא יַאֲמִין וְשָׁמַיִם לֹא־זַכּוּ בְעֵינָיו׃ (1759)

See also: Job 4:18, Job 5:1, Job 25:5, Job 26:11, Isaiah 6:2-5, Habakkuk 1:13, Romans 3:20, Job 21:22, Psalms 113:6

16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

אַף כִּי־נִתְעָב וְנֶאֱלָח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶה כַמַּיִם עַוְלָה׃ (1965)

17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

אֲחַוְךָ שְׁמַע־לִי וְזֶה־חָזִיתִי וַאֲסַפֵּרָה׃ (1290)

See also: Job 5:27, Job 13:1, Job 13:5-6, Job 33:1, Job 34:2, Job 36:2, Psalms 44:1, Proverbs 24:30

18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

אֲשֶׁר־חֲכָמִים יַגִּידוּ וְלֹא כִחֲדוּ מֵאֲבֹותָם׃ (1216)

See also: Job 8:8, Job 15:10, Psalms 71:18, Psalms 78:3-6, Isaiah 38:19, Psalms 78:4

19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

לָהֶם לְבַדָּם נִתְּנָה הָאָרֶץ וְלֹא־עָבַר זָר בְּתֹוכָם׃ (1936)

See also: Joel 3:17, Genesis 10:25, Genesis 10:32, Deuteronomy 32:8

20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

כָּל־יְמֵי רָשָׁע הוּא מִתְחֹולֵל וּמִסְפַּר נִים נִצְפְּנוּ לֶעָרִיץ׃ (2368)

See also: Isaiah 48:22, Psalms 7:14, Genesis 4:14, Job 27:13, James 5:1-6, Esther 5:13, Job 24:1, Isaiah 57:20, Luke 12:19-21, Leviticus 26:16, 1 Samuel 28:20, Job 16:17, Job 21:27, Psalms 90:3-4, Psalms 90:12, Ecclesiastes 9:3, Daniel 5:6, Romans 8:22

21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

קֹול־פְּחָדִים בְּאָזְנָיו בַּשָּׁלֹום שֹׁודֵד יְבֹואֶנּוּ׃ (1121)

22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

לֹא־יַאֲמִין וּב מִנִּי־חֹשֶׁךְ [וְצָפוּ כ] (וְצָפוּי ק) הוּא אֱלֵי־חָרֶב׃ (1335)

See also: Genesis 4:13, 1 Kings 1:52, Job 15:30, Job 20:24-25, Job 33:18, 2 Kings 6:33, Job 6:11, Job 9:16, Job 19:29, Job 23:17, Job 27:14, Job 36:12, Isaiah 8:21-22, Matthew 27:5, Psalms 107:14

23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

נֹדֵד הוּא לַלֶּחֶם אַיֵּה יָדַע ׀ כִּי־נָכֹון בְּיָדֹו יֹום־חֹשֶׁךְ׃ (840)

See also: Psalms 59:15, Psalms 37:25, Job 18:12, Psalms 109:10, Ecclesiastes 11:8, Amos 5:20, Genesis 4:12, Job 9:4, Job 18:5-6, Job 18:18, Job 30:3-4, Lamentations 5:6, Lamentations 5:9, Joel 2:2, Zephaniah 1:15, Hebrews 10:27, Hebrews 11:37-38

24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

יְבַעֲתֻהוּ צַר וּמְצוּקָה תִּתְקְפֵהוּ כְּמֶלֶךְ ׀ עָתִיד לַכִּידֹור׃ (2885)

See also: Isaiah 45:9, Esther 6:13, Proverbs 6:11, Proverbs 24:34, Jeremiah 36:29, Job 6:2-4, Psalms 119:143, Proverbs 1:27, Isaiah 13:3, Matthew 26:37-38, Romans 2:9

25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

כִּי־נָטָה אֶל־אֵל יָדֹו וְאֶלשַׁ־דַּי יִתְגַּבָּר׃ (1142)

26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

יָרוּץ אֵלָיו בְּצַוָּאר בַּעֲבִי גַּבֵּי מָגִנָּיו׃ (860)

See also: 2 Chronicles 32:13-17, Genesis 49:8, 2 Chronicles 28:22, Job 16:12, Psalms 18:40

27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

כִּי־כִסָּה פָנָיו בְּחֶלְבֹּו וַיַּעַשׂ פִּימָה עֲלֵי־כָסֶל׃ (1050)

See also: Psalms 17:10, Judges 3:17, Psalms 73:7, Isaiah 6:10, Jeremiah 5:28, Deuteronomy 32:15, Judges 3:29, Job 17:10, Job 21:24, Psalms 78:31

28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

וַיִּשְׁכֹּון ׀ עָרִים נִכְחָדֹות בָּתִּים לֹא־יֵשְׁבוּ לָמֹו אֲשֶׁר הִתְעַתְּדוּ לְגַלִּים׃ (3576)

See also: Job 3:14, Jeremiah 51:37, Job 18:15, Proverbs 13:11, Isaiah 5:8-10, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 26:18, Micah 3:12, Micah 7:18

29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

לֹא־יֶעְשַׁר וְלֹא־יָקוּם חֵילֹו וְלֹא־יִטֶּה לָאָרֶץ מִנְלָם׃ (1400)

See also: Job 27:16-17, Job 20:22, James 1:11, Job 20:5, Job 20:21, Job 22:15-20, Psalms 49:16-17, Luke 12:19-21, Luke 16:2, Luke 16:19-22, James 5:1-3, Proverbs 12:3

30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

לֹא־יָסוּר ׀ מִנִּי־חֹשֶׁךְ יֹנַקְתֹּו תְּיַבֵּשׁ שַׁלְהָבֶת וְיָסוּר בְּרוּחַ פִּיו׃ (3344)

31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

אַל־יַאֲמֵן [בַּשֹּׁו כ] (בַּשָּׁיו ק) נִתְעָה כִּישָׁ־וְא תִּהְיֶה תְמוּרָתֹו׃ (3212)

See also: Galatians 6:7, Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 44:20, Galatians 6:3, Psalms 62:10, Hosea 8:7, Job 4:8, Job 12:16, Proverbs 22:8, Jonah 2:8, Ephesians 5:6, Job 22:5, Job 34:33, Isaiah 17:10-11

32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

בְּלֹא־יֹומֹו תִּמָּלֵא וְכִפָּתֹו לֹא רַעֲנָנָה׃ (1484)

See also: Job 22:16, Ecclesiastes 7:17, Psalms 55:23, Proverbs 10:27, Job 36:14, Hosea 9:16, Job 8:16-19, Job 14:7-9, Job 18:16-17, Psalms 52:5-8, Isaiah 27:11, Ezekiel 17:8-10, Hosea 14:5-7, John 15:6

33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

יַחְמֹס כַּגֶּפֶן בִּסְרֹו וְיַשְׁלֵךְ כַּזַּיִת נִצָּתֹו׃ (1888)

See also: Deuteronomy 28:39-40, Isaiah 33:9, Revelation 6:13

34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

כִּי־עֲדַת חָנֵף גַּלְמוּד וְאֵשׁ אָכְלָה אָהֳלֵי־שֹׁחַד׃ (1446)

35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

הָרֹה עָמָל וְיָלֹד אָוֶן וּבִטְנָם תָּכִין מִרְמָה׃ (1329)

See also: James 1:15, Psalms 7:14, Isaiah 59:4, Job 4:8, Hosea 10:13, Proverbs 24:2, 1 Kings 20:7, Psalms 10:7, Isaiah 33:11, Galatians 6:7-8, Acts 5:4