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Ayub 15:1--17:16

Eliphaz’s Second Speech

15:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

15:2 “Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge,

or fill his belly with the east wind?

15:3 Does he argue with useless talk,

with words that have no value in them?

15:4 But you even break off piety,

and hinder meditation 10  before God.

15:5 Your sin inspires 11  your mouth;

you choose the language 12  of the crafty. 13 

15:6 Your own mouth condemns 14  you, not I;

your own lips testify against 15  you.

15:7 “Were you the first man ever born?

Were you brought forth before the hills?

15:8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council? 16 

Do you limit 17  wisdom to yourself?

15:9 What do you know that we don’t know?

What do you understand that we don’t understand? 18 

15:10 The gray-haired 19  and the aged are on our side, 20 

men far older than your father. 21 

15:11 Are God’s consolations 22  too trivial for you; 23 

or a word spoken 24  in gentleness to you?

15:12 Why 25  has your heart carried you away, 26 

and why do your eyes flash, 27 

15:13 when you turn your rage 28  against God

and allow such words to escape 29  from your mouth?

15:14 What is man that he should be pure,

or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

15:15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, 30 

if even the heavens 31  are not pure in his eyes,

15:16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, 32 

who drinks in evil like water! 33 

15:17 “I will explain to you;

listen to me,

and what 34  I have seen, I will declare, 35 

15:18 what wise men declare,

hiding nothing,

from the tradition of 36  their ancestors, 37 

15:19 to whom alone the land was given

when no foreigner passed among them. 38 

15:20 All his days 39  the wicked man suffers torment, 40 

throughout the number of the years

that 41  are stored up for the tyrant. 42 

15:21 Terrifying sounds fill 43  his ears;

in a time of peace marauders 44  attack him.

15:22 He does not expect 45  to escape from darkness; 46 

he is marked for the sword; 47 

15:23 he wanders about – food for vultures; 48 

he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. 49 

15:24 Distress and anguish 50  terrify him;

they prevail against him

like a king ready to launch an attack, 51 

15:25 for he stretches out his hand against God, 52 

and vaunts himself 53  against the Almighty,

15:26 defiantly charging against him 54 

with a thick, strong shield! 55 

15:27 Because he covered his face with fat, 56 

and made 57  his hips bulge with fat, 58 

15:28 he lived in ruined towns 59 

and in houses where 60  no one lives,

where they are ready to crumble into heaps. 61 

15:29 He will not grow rich,

and his wealth will not endure,

nor will his possessions 62  spread over the land.

15:30 He will not escape the darkness; 63 

a flame will wither his shoots

and he will depart

by the breath of God’s mouth. 64 

15:31 Let him not trust in what is worthless, 65 

deceiving himself;

for worthlessness will be his reward. 66 

15:32 Before his time 67  he will be paid in full, 68 

and his branches will not flourish. 69 

15:33 Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, 70 

and like an olive tree

he will shed his blossoms. 71 

15:34 For the company of the godless is barren, 72 

and fire 73  consumes the tents of those who accept bribes. 74 

15:35 They conceive 75  trouble and bring forth evil;

their belly 76  prepares deception.”

Job’s Reply to Eliphaz 77 

16:1 Then Job replied:

16:2 “I have heard many things like these before.

What miserable comforters 78  are you all!

16:3 Will 79  there be an end to your 80  windy words? 81 

Or what provokes 82  you that you answer? 83 

16:4 I also could speak 84  like you,

if 85  you were in my place;

I could pile up 86  words against you

and I could shake my head at you. 87 

16:5 But 88  I would strengthen 89  you with my words; 90 

comfort from my lips would bring 91  you relief.

Abandonment by God and Man

16:6 “But 92  if I speak, my pain is not relieved, 93 

and if I refrain from speaking

– how 94  much of it goes away?

16:7 Surely now he 95  has worn me out,

you have devastated my entire household.

16:8 You have seized me, 96 

and it 97  has become a witness;

my leanness 98  has risen up against me

and testifies against me.

16:9 His 99  anger has torn me 100  and persecuted 101  me;

he has gnashed at me with his teeth;

my adversary locks 102  his eyes on me.

16:10 People 103  have opened their mouths against me,

they have struck my cheek in scorn; 104 

they unite 105  together against me.

16:11 God abandons me to evil 106  men, 107 

and throws 108  me into the hands of wicked men.

16:12 I was in peace, and he has shattered me. 109 

He has seized me by the neck and crushed me. 110 

He has made me his target;

16:13 his archers 111  surround me.

Without pity 112  he pierces 113  my kidneys

and pours out my gall 114  on the ground.

16:14 He breaks through against me, time and time again; 115 

he rushes 116  against me like a warrior.

16:15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, 117 

and buried 118  my horn 119  in the dust;

16:16 my face is reddened 120  because of weeping, 121 

and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness, 122 

16:17 although 123  there is no violence in my hands

and my prayer is pure.

An Appeal to God as Witness

16:18 “O earth, do not cover my blood, 124 

nor let there be a secret 125  place for my cry.

16:19 Even now my witness 126  is in heaven;

my advocate 127  is on high.

16:20 My intercessor is my friend 128 

as my eyes pour out 129  tears to God;

16:21 and 130  he contends with God on behalf of man

as a man 131  pleads 132  for his friend.

16:22 For the years that lie ahead are few, 133 

and then I will go on the way of no return. 134 

17:1 My spirit is broken, 135 

my days have faded out, 136 

the grave 137  awaits me.

17:2 Surely mockery 138  is with me; 139 

my eyes must dwell on their hostility. 140 

17:3 Make then my pledge 141  with you.

Who else will put up security for me? 142 

17:4 Because 143  you have closed their 144  minds to understanding,

therefore you will not exalt them. 145 

17:5 If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, 146 

the eyes of his children will fail.

17:6 He has made me 147  a byword 148  to people,

I am the one in whose face they spit. 149 

17:7 My eyes have grown dim 150  with grief;

my whole frame 151  is but a shadow.

17:8 Upright men are appalled 152  at this;

the innocent man is troubled 153  with the godless.

17:9 But the righteous man holds to his way,

and the one with clean hands grows stronger. 154 

Anticipation of Death

17:10 “But turn, all of you, 155  and come 156  now! 157 

I will not find a wise man among you.

17:11 My days have passed, my plans 158  are shattered,

even 159  the desires 160  of my heart.

17:12 These men 161  change 162  night into day;

they say, 163  ‘The light is near

in the face of darkness.’ 164 

17:13 If 165  I hope for the grave to be my home,

if I spread out my bed in darkness,

17:14 If I cry 166  to corruption, 167  ‘You are my father,’

and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

17:15 where then 168  is my hope?

And my hope, 169  who sees it?

17:16 Will 170  it 171  go down to the barred gates 172  of death?

Will 173  we descend 174  together into the dust?”


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