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