# Job 15

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/15

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2. Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind?
3. Should he argue with speech that brings no advantage, or with words that profit nothing?
4. Indeed, you reject fear and diminish prayer before God.
5. For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6. Your mouth convicts you, not I, and your lips testify against you.
7. Are you the first man born, or were you brought forth before the hills?
8. Have you heard God's intimate counsel? Do you reserve wisdom for yourself?
9. What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not with us?
10. Both the gray-haired and the ancient are among us, much older than your father.
11. Are God's consolations too small for you, even a gentle word with you?
12. Why does your heart take you away, and why do your eyes wink?
13. that you turn your spirit against God and let words like these come out of your mouth?
14. How can man be pure? Or one born of woman be righteous?
15. Behold, he does not trust his holy ones; the heavens are not pure in his eyes.
16. How much more abominable and filthy is a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17. I will show you; listen to me—what I have seen I will declare.
18. which wise men have declared from their fathers and have not concealed
19. The land was given to them alone, and no stranger passed among them.
20. All the days of the wicked he writhes, and the number of years lies hidden for the oppressor.
21. Sounds of dread ring in his ears; even in peace the destroyer comes upon him.
22. He does not believe he will return from darkness, and the sword waits and watches for him.
23. He wanders for bread—where is it?—knowing the day of darkness stands ready at his hand.
24. Distress and anguish terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for battle.
25. Because he has extended his hand against God and makes himself strong against the Almighty.
26. He rushes at him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his shields.
27. because he covered his face with his fat and made fat folds on his flanks.
28. He dwells in desolate cities, in houses no one inhabits, which were ready to become heaps.
29. He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure, nor will he extend their possessions over the earth.
30. He will not turn aside from darkness; flame will dry up his branch, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
31. Let him not trust in emptiness; he goes astray in emptiness, for emptiness will be his recompense.
32. It will be completed before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
33. He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine and cast off his flower like an olive tree.
34. For the assembly of hypocrites lies desolate, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
35. They conceive trouble and bear evil, and their bellies prepare deceit.

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[Job 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/14.md)
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