Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much
Then Eliphaz the Temanite 1responded,Lit answered and said
2 “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledgeaAnd fill 1himself with the east wind?Lit his bellyJob 6:263 “Should he argue with useless talk,Or with words which are not profitable?4 “Indeed, you do away with 1reverenceAnd hinder meditation before God.Lit fear5 “For ayour guilt teaches your mouth,And you choose the language of bthe crafty.Job 22:5Job 5:12, 136 “Your aown mouth condemns you, and not I;And your own lips testify against you.Job 18:7
7 “Were you the first man to be born,Or awere you brought forth before the hills?Job 38:4, 21; Prov 8:258 “Do you hear the asecret counsel of God,And limit wisdom to yourself?Job 29:4; Rom 11:34; 1 Cor 2:119 “aWhat do you know that we do not know?What do you understand that 1we do not?Lit is not within us?Job 12:3; 13:210 “Both the agray-haired and the aged are among us,Older than your father.Job 12:12; 32:6, 711 “Are athe consolations of God too small for you,Even the bword spoken gently with you?Job 5:17-19; 36:15, 16Job 6:10; 23:1212 “Why does your aheart carry you away?And why do your eyes flash,Job 11:13; 36:1313 That you should turn your spirit against GodAnd allow such words to go out of your mouth?14 “What is man, that ahe should be pure,Or bhe who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?Job 14:4; Prov 20:9; Eccl 7:20Job 25:415 “Behold, He puts no trust in His aholy ones,And the bheavens are not pure in His sight;Job 5:1Job 25:516 How much less one who is adetestable and corrupt,Man, who bdrinks iniquity like water!Ps 14:1Job 34:7; Prov 19:28
What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life
17 “I will tell you, listen to me;And what I have seen I will also declare;18 What wise men have told,And have not concealed from atheir fathers,Job 8:8; 20:419 To whom alone the land was given,And no alien passed among them.20 “The wicked man writhes ain pain all his days,And 1numbered are the years bstored up for the ruthless.Lit the number of years areJob 15:24Job 24:1; 27:1321 “1Sounds of aterror are in his ears;bWhile at peace the destroyer comes upon him.Lit A sound of terrors isJob 15:24; 18:11; 20:25; 24:17; 27:20Job 20:21; 1 Thess 5:322 “He does not believe that he will areturn from darkness,And he is destined for bthe sword.Job 15:30Job 19:29; 27:14; 33:18; 36:1223 “He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’He knows that a day of adarkness is 1at hand.Lit ready at his handJob 15:22, 3024 “Distress and anguish terrify him,They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,25 Because he has stretched out his hand against GodAnd conducts himself aarrogantly against 1the Almighty.Heb ShaddaiJob 36:926 “He rushes 1headlong at HimWith 2his massive shield.Lit with a stiff neckLit the thick-bossed shields27 “For he has acovered his face with his fatAnd made his thighs heavy with flesh.Ps 73:7; 119:7028 “He has alived in desolate cities,In houses no one would inhabit,Which are destined to become 1ruins.Or heapsJob 3:14; Is 5:8, 929 “He awill not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;And his grain will not bend down to the ground.Job 27:16, 1730 “He will anot 1escape from darkness;The bflame will wither his shoots,And by cthe breath of His mouth he will go away.Lit turn asideJob 5:14; 15:22Job 15:34; 20:26; 22:20; 31:12Job 4:931 “Let him not atrust in emptiness, deceiving himself;For emptiness will be his 1reward.Lit exchangeJob 35:13; Is 59:432 “It will be accomplished abefore his time,And his palm bbranch will not be green.Job 22:16; Eccl 7:17Job 18:1633 “He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,And will acast off his flower like the olive tree.Job 14:234 “For the company of athe godless is barren,And fire consumes bthe tents of 1the corrupt.Lit a bribeJob 8:13Job 8:2235 “They aconceive 1mischief and bring forth iniquity,And their 2mind prepares deception.”Or painLit bellyPs 7:14; Is 59:4