Job 15 · איוב

Then answered Elifaz the Temanite, and said,

Should a wise man utter windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Yea, thou castest off fear, and thou dost slight the prayer that is made before God.

For thy mouth utters thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Thy own mouth condemns thee, and not I: yea, thy own lips testify against thee.

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

Dost thou listen in to the council of God, and keep wisdom to thyself?

What knowst thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

With us are both the greyheaded and very aged men, much older than thy father.

Are the consolations of God too small for thee? or the word which he spoke softly with thee?

Why does thy heart carry thee away? and why do thy eyes wink?

that thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

What is man, that he should be clean? and one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; and the heavens are not clean in his sight:

how much less one who is abominable and filthy? man, who drinks iniquity like water?

I will tell thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden it:

to whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, through the number of years stored up for the tyrant.

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Trouble and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

For he stretches out his hand against God, and behaves proudly against the Almighty.

He runs upon him with neck armour, with the thick bosses of his bucklers:

because he has covered his face with his fat, and has put collops of fat on his flanks.

And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth.

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.

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself: for vanity shall be his recompense.

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

He shall shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and shall cast off his flower like the olive.

For the company of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.