Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much
Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,
2 “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,aAnd fill 1himself with the east wind?Lit his bellyJob 6:263 “Should he argue with useless talk,Or with words which do not benefit?4 “Indeed, you do away with 1reverence,And hinder meditation before God.Lit fear5 “For ayour wrongdoing teaches your mouth,And you choose the language of bthe cunning.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 person to be born,Or awere you brought forth before the hills?Job 38:4, 21; Prov 8:258 “Do you hear the asecret discussion 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 little for you,Or the bword spoken gently to you?Job 5:17-19; 36:15, 16Job 6:10; 23:1212 “Why does your aheart take you away?And why do your eyes wink,Job 11:13; 36:1313 That you can turn your spirit against GodAnd produce such words from your mouth?14 “What is man, that ahe would be pure,Or bhe who is born of a woman, that he would be righteous?Job 14:4; Prov 20:9; Eccl 7:20Job 25:415 “Behold, He has 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:A person who bdrinks 1malice like water!Or injusticePs 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 people have told,And have not concealed from atheir fathers,Job 8:8; 20:419 To whom alone the land was given,And no stranger passed among them.20 “The wicked person writhes ain pain all his days,And the 1years breserved for the ruthless are numbered.Lit number of years are reserved forJob 15:24Job 24:1; 27:1321 “1Sounds of aterror are in his ears;bWhile he is 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 reached out with his hand against God,And is aarrogant toward 1the Almighty.Heb ShaddaiJob 36:926 “He rushes 1headlong at HimWith his 2massive shield.Lit with a stiff neckLit thick-bossed shields27 “For he has acovered his face with his fat,And 1put fat on his waist.Lit madePs 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 property will not stretch out on the earth.Job 27:16, 1730 “He will anot 1escape from darkness;The bflame will dry up his shoot,And he will go away by cthe breath of His mouth.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 his 1reward will be emptiness.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 1harm and give birth to wrongdoing,And their 2mind prepares deception.”Or painLit bellyPs 7:14; Is 59:4