Job 第15章
Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God
3Should he argue in unprofitable talk,
or in words with which he can do no good?
4But you are doing away with the fear of God15:4 Hebrew lacks of God
and hindering meditation before God.
5For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6Your 15:6 ch. 9:20; Luke 19:22own mouth condemns you, and not I;
15:6 2 Sam. 1:16your own lips testify against you.
Or 15:7 Prov. 8:25were you brought forth 15:7 Ps. 90:2before the hills?
8Have you listened in 15:8 ch. 29:4; Jer. 23:18; [Gen. 1:26; 3:22]the council of God?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?
older than your father.
11Are the comforts of God too small for you,
or the word that deals gently with you?
12Why does your heart carry you away,
and why do your eyes flash,
and bring such words out of your mouth?
1415:14 For ver. 14-16, see ch. 25:4-6What is man, 15:14 [ch. 14:4; Ps. 14:3; Prov. 20:9; Eccles. 7:20; 1 John 1:8, 10] that he can be pure?
Or he who is 15:14 See ch. 14:1born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
a man who 15:16 ch. 34:7; [Prov. 19:28; 26:6]drinks injustice like water!
17“I will show you; hear me,
and what I have seen I will declare
18(what wise men have told,
without hiding it 15:18 [ch. 8:8]; See Ps. 44:1from their fathers,
19to whom alone the land was given,
and no 15:19 Joel 3:17stranger passed among them).
20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
through all the 15:20 [ch. 21:19; 24:1] years that are laid up for 15:20 ch. 6:23; 27:13the ruthless.
in 15:21 [1 Thess. 5:3]prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
22He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
and he is marked for the sword.
He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
24distress and anguish terrify him;
they 15:24 ch. 14:20prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
25Because he has stretched out his hand against God
and defies the Almighty,
with a thickly bossed shield;
and gathered fat upon his waist
28and has lived in desolate cities,
in houses that none should inhabit,
which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
29he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
nor will his possessions spread over the earth;15:29 Or nor will his produce bend down to the earth
30he will not depart from darkness;
the flame will dry up his shoots,
and by 15:30 ch. 4:9the breath of his mouth he will depart.
for emptiness will be his payment.
32It will be paid in full 15:32 ch. 22:16; Eccles. 7:17; [Ps. 55:23; 102:24]before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
33He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
and 15:34 [ch. 20:26]fire consumes the tents of bribery.
35They 15:35 Ps. 7:14; Isa. 59:4; [Hos. 10:13] conceive trouble and give birth to evil,
and their 15:35 See ver. 2womb prepares deceit.”
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