nsb - Job:15

nsb@Job:15:1 @ ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE REPLIED:

nsb@Job:15:2 @ »Should a wise man answer with empty notions or be filled with the hot east wind?

nsb@Job:15:3 @ »Would he reason with useless words, with speeches that have no value?

nsb@Job:15:4 @ »You even undermine piety and hinder prayer to God.

nsb@Job:15:5 @ »Your sin inspires your mouth. You choose the tongue of the crafty.

nsb@Job:15:6 @ »Your own mouth condemns you, not mine! Your own lips testify against you.

nsb@Job:15:7 @ »Are you the first man ever born? Were you created before the hills?

nsb@Job:15:8 @ »Have you heard Gods council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

nsb@Job:15:9 @ »What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?

nsb@Job:15:10 @ »The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

nsb@Job:15:11 @ »Are Gods consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?

nsb@Job:15:12 @ »Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash?

nsb@Job:15:13 @ »Why do you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?

nsb@Job:15:14 @ »What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?

nsb@Job:15:15 @ »If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

nsb@Job:15:16 @ how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water!

nsb@Job:15:17 @ »Listen to me and I will explain to you what I have seen.

nsb@Job:15:18 @ »What have wise men declared, hiding nothing received from their fathers,

nsb@Job:15:19 @ to whom alone the land was given when no alien passed among them?

nsb@Job:15:20 @ »All his days the wicked man suffers torment and the ruthless through all the years stored up for him.

nsb@Job:15:21 @ »Terrifying sounds fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him.

nsb@Job:15:22 @ »He despairs of escaping the darkness; he is marked for the sword.

nsb@Job:15:23 @ »He wanders about as food for vultures and he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

nsb@Job:15:24 @ »Distress and anguish fill him with terror. They overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack.

nsb@Job:15:25 @ »He shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

nsb@Job:15:26 @ »He defiantly charges against him with a thick, strong shield.

nsb@Job:15:27 @ »His face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh.

nsb@Job:15:28 @ »He will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.

nsb@Job:15:29 @ »He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

nsb@Job:15:30 @ »He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of Gods mouth will carry him away.

nsb@Job:15:31 @ »Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless. He will get nothing in return.

nsb@Job:15:32 @ »Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

nsb@Job:15:33 @ »He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.

nsb@Job:15:34 @ »The company of the godless will be barren. And fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

nsb@Job:15:35 @ »They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb fashions deceit.«