Verse
KJV
King James Version
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Then
answered
Eliphaz the Temanite ,
and said,
And
Eliphaz the Temanite answereth
and saith:
--
Should
a wise man utter
vain knowledge ,
and fill his
belly
with the
east wind?
Doth
a wise man answer
`with'
vain knowledge ?
And fill `
with '
an
east wind his
belly
?
Should
he
reason with unprofitable
talk
? or
with
speeches wherewith
he
can
do
no good
?
To
reason with a
word
not
useful
? And
speeches --
no profit
in
them
?
Yea, thou castest
off
fear
, and restrainest
prayer
before God.
Yea, thou dost
make
reverence
void
, And dost
diminish
meditation
before God.
For thy mouth uttereth
thine iniquity, and thou choosest
the tongue of the crafty
.
For thy mouth teacheth
thine iniquity, And thou chooseth
the tongue of the subtile
.
Thine
own
mouth condemneth
thee, and not I :
yea
, thine
own
lips testify against thee.
Thy
mouth declareth
thee wicked
, and not I, And
thy
lips testify against thee.
Art
thou
the first man that
was
born? or
wast
thou
made
before the hills
?
The first man art
thou
born? And
before the heights
wast
thou
formed
?
Hast
thou
heard
the secret of God? and dost
thou restrain
wisdom to
thyself
?
Of
the secret counsel
of God dost
thou
hear
? And withdrawest
thou unto
thee
wisdom?
What knowest
thou, that
we know not? what
understandest thou ,
which
is not in
us?
What hast
thou known
, and
we know not? Understandest thou --
and
it
is not with
us?
With
us
are
both the grayheaded
and very aged men,
much
elder
than thy father.
Both the gray-headed
And the
very aged `are'
among
us
--
Greater
than thy father `in'
days
.
Are the consolations
of God small
with
thee
? is there
any
secret
thing
with thee ?
Too
few
for
thee
are the comforts
of God? And
a
gentle
word
`
is '
with thee ,
Why
doth thine heart carry
thee away? and what do
thy
eyes wink
at,
What
--
doth thine heart take
thee away? And what --
are
thine
eyes high?
That
thou turnest thy
spirit
against God ,
and lettest
such
words
go
out of
thy mouth ?
For
thou turnest against God thy
spirit?
And hast
brought
out words
from
thy mouth :
What is man ,
that he should
be
clean?
and he which
is born of a
woman ,
that
he
should
be
righteous
?
What `
is '
man that he is
pure,
And that
he is righteous,
one
born of woman?
Behold
, he putteth no trust
in
his
saints;
yea
, the heavens are
not clean
in his sight
.
Lo
, in
His
holy
ones
He putteth no credence
, And
the heavens have
not been
pure
in His eyes
.
How
much
more
abominable and filthy is man ,
which
drinketh
iniquity
like
water ?
Also
--
surely
abominable and filthy Is man drinking
as
water perverseness.
I will
shew thee ,
hear
me ;
and that
which
I have seen I
will
declare ;
I shew thee --
hearken
to
me --
And this
I have seen and
declare :
Which wise men
have
told
from
their
fathers,
and have not hid it:
Which the
wise declare
--
And have not hid --
from
their
fathers.
Unto
whom
alone the
earth
was given, and no
stranger passed among
them.
To
them
alone was the
land
given, And a
stranger passed not
over
into
their
midst:
The
wicked
man
travaileth
with
pain
all his
days, and the
number
of
years is
hidden
to
the oppressor
.
`
All days of
the
wicked
he
is
paining
himself
, And few
years have
been
laid
up
for
the terrible
one
.
A dreadful
sound
is in his ears :
in prosperity
the
destroyer shall
come upon
him.
A fearful
voice
`
is '
in his ears ,
In peace
doth
a
destroyer come to
him.
He believeth not that
he
shall
return out
of
darkness, and he
is waited
for of
the sword.
He believeth not to
return from
darkness, And watched
`
is '
he
for the sword.
He wandereth
abroad
for bread ,
saying,
Where is it? he knoweth
that the
day
of
darkness
is
ready at his hand.
He is
wandering
for bread --
`
Where `
is '
it? '
He hath
known
that ready at his hand Is
a
day
of
darkness
.
Trouble
and
anguish
shall
make
him afraid;
they shall
prevail against
him ,
as a king ready to
the
battle
.
Terrify
him do
adversity
and
distress,
They prevail over
him As a king ready for
a
boaster
.
For he stretcheth
out his
hand
against God, and strengtheneth
himself
against the Almighty
.
For he stretched
out against God his
hand
, And against the Mighty
he
maketh
himself
mighty
.
He runneth upon
him ,
even
on
his
neck, upon
the
thick bosses of his bucklers:
He runneth unto
Him with
a
neck, With
thick bosses of his shields.
Because
he covereth
his face with his fatness
, and maketh collops
of
fat
on
his flanks
.
For
he hath
covered
his face with his fat
, And maketh vigour
over
`
his '
confidence
.
And he dwelleth
in
desolate
cities, and
in
houses which
no
man
inhabiteth
, which
are
ready to become heaps.
And he inhabiteth
cities cut
off
, houses not
dwelt
in
, That
have
been
ready to become heaps.
He shall
not be
rich, neither
shall
his substance
continue
, neither
shall
he prolong
the
perfection
thereof
upon
the
earth.
He is
not rich, nor
doth
his wealth
rise
, Nor
doth
he stretch
out
on
earth their
continuance
.
He shall
not depart
out
of
darkness ;
the
flame shall
dry up his
branches
, and by
the breath of his mouth shall
he
go
away.
He turneth
not aside
from
darkness ,
His
tender
branch
doth
a
flame dry up, And he
turneth
aside
at
the breath of His mouth !
Let not
him that
is
deceived
trust
in vanity :
for vanity shall
be
his recompence.
Let him not
put
credence
in vanity ,
He
hath
been
deceived,
For vanity is
his recompence.
It
shall
be
accomplished
before
his time
, and his branch shall
not be
green.
Not
in
his day
is
it
completed
, And his bending
branch is
not green.
He shall
shake
off his
unripe
grape
as the
vine, and shall
cast
off his
flower
as the
olive.
He shaketh
off as a
vine his
unripe
fruit
, And casteth
off as an
olive his
blossom
.
For the congregation
of hypocrites
shall
be
desolate
, and fire shall
consume
the
tabernacles
of bribery.
For the company
of the
profane
`is'
gloomy
, And fire hath
consumed
tents
of bribery.
They
conceive mischief
, and bring
forth
vanity
, and
their belly
prepareth
deceit.
To
conceive misery
, and to
bear
iniquity
, Even
their heart
doth
prepare
deceit.
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