Jb 15 (King James)

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
⁴ Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
⁵ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
⁷ Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
⁸ Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
¹⁰ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
¹¹ Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
¹² Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
¹³ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
¹⁵ Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
¹⁶ How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
¹⁷ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
¹⁸ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
¹⁹ Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
²⁰ The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
²¹ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
²² He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
²⁴ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
²⁵ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
²⁶ He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
²⁷ Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
²⁸ And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
³⁰ 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.
³¹ Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Jb 15 (Vulgate)

¹ Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit :
² [Numquid sapiens respondebit quasi in ventum loquens, et implebit ardore stomachum suum ?
³ Arguis verbis eum qui non est æqualis tibi, et loqueris quod tibi non expedit.
⁴ Quantum in te est, evacuasti timorem, et tulisti preces coram Deo.
⁵ Docuit enim iniquitas tua os tuum, et imitaris linguam blasphemantium.
⁶ Condemnabit te os tuum, et non ego : et labia tua respondebunt tibi.
⁷ Numquid primus homo tu natus es, et ante colles formatus ?
⁸ numquid consilium Dei audisti, et inferior te erit ejus sapientia ?
⁹ Quid nosti quod ignoremus ? quid intelligis quod nesciamus ?
¹⁰ Et senes et antiqui sunt in nobis, multo vetustiores quam patres tui.
¹¹ Numquid grande est ut consoletur te Deus ? sed verba tua prava hoc prohibent.
¹² Quid te elevat cor tuum, et quasi magna cogitans attonitos habes oculos ?
¹³ Quid tumet contra Deum spiritus tuus, ut proferas de ore tuo hujuscemodi sermones ?
¹⁴ Quid est homo ut immaculatus sit, et ut justus appareat natus de muliere ?
¹⁵ Ecce inter sanctos ejus nemo immutabilis, et cæli non sunt mundi in conspectu ejus.
¹⁶ Quanto magis abominabilis et inutilis homo, qui bibit quasi aquam iniquitatem ?
¹⁷ Ostendam tibi : audi me : quod vidi, narrabo tibi.
¹⁸ Sapientes confitentur, et non abscondunt patres suos :
¹⁹ quibus solis data est terra, et non transivit alienus per eos.
²⁰ Cunctis diebus suis impius superbit, et numerus annorum incertus est tyrannidis ejus.
²¹ Sonitus terroris semper in auribus illius : et cum pax sit, ille semper insidias suspicatur.
²² Non credit quod reverti possit de tenebris ad lucem, circumspectans undique gladium.
²³ Cum se moverit ad quærendum panem, novit quod paratus sit in manu ejus tenebrarum dies.
²⁴ Terrebit eum tribulatio, et angustia vallabit eum, sicut regem qui præparatur ad prælium.
²⁵ Tetendit enim adversus Deum manum suam, et contra Omnipotentem roboratus est.
²⁶ Cucurrit adversus eum erecto collo, et pingui cervice armatus est.
²⁷ Operuit faciem ejus crassitudo, et de lateribus ejus arvina dependet.
²⁸ Habitavit in civitatibus desolatis, et in domibus desertis, quæ in tumulos sunt redactæ.
²⁹ Non ditabitur, nec perseverabit substantia ejus, nec mittet in terra radicem suam.
³⁰ Non recedet de tenebris : ramos ejus arefaciet flamma, et auferetur spiritu oris sui.
³¹ Non credet, frustra errore deceptus, quod aliquo pretio redimendus sit.
³² Antequam dies ejus impleantur peribit, et manus ejus arescent.
³³ Lædetur quasi vinea in primo flore botrus ejus, et quasi oliva projiciens florem suum.
³⁴ Congregatio enim hypocritæ sterilis, et ignis devorabit tabernacula eorum qui munera libenter accipiunt.
³⁵ Concepit dolorem, et peperit iniquitatem, et uterus ejus præparat dolos.]