# Job 15 ## Job 15:1 - [KJV] Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, - [ASV] Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, - [YLT] And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- ### Notes on Job 15:1 - ## Job 15:2 - [KJV] Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? - [ASV] Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind? - [YLT] Doth a wise man answer *with* vain knowledge? And fill *with* an east wind his belly? ### Notes on Job 15:2 - ## Job 15:3 - [KJV] Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? - [ASV] Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? - [YLT] To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them? ### Notes on Job 15:3 - ## Job 15:4 - [KJV] Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. - [ASV] Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God. - [YLT] Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God. ### Notes on Job 15:4 - ## Job 15:5 - [KJV] For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. - [ASV] For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. - [YLT] For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile. ### Notes on Job 15:5 - ## Job 15:6 - [KJV] Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. - [ASV] Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee. - [YLT] Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee. ### Notes on Job 15:6 - ## Job 15:7 - [KJV] *Art* thou the first man *that* was born? or wast thou made before the hills? - [ASV] Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills? - [YLT] The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed? ### Notes on Job 15:7 - ## Job 15:8 - [KJV] Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? - [ASV] Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself? - [YLT] Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom? ### Notes on Job 15:8 - ## Job 15:9 - [KJV] What knowest thou, that we know not? *what* understandest thou, which *is* not in us? - [ASV] What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? - [YLT] What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us? ### Notes on Job 15:9 - ## Job 15:10 - [KJV] With us *are* both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. - [ASV] With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father. - [YLT] Both the gray-headed And the very aged *are* among us -- Greater than thy father *in* days. ### Notes on Job 15:10 - ## Job 15:11 - [KJV] *Are* the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? - [ASV] Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee? - [YLT] Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word *is* with thee, ### Notes on Job 15:11 - ## Job 15:12 - [KJV] Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, - [ASV] Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash, - [YLT] What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high? ### Notes on Job 15:12 - ## Job 15:13 - [KJV] That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest *such* words go out of thy mouth? - [ASV] That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth? - [YLT] For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth: ### Notes on Job 15:13 - ## Job 15:14 - [KJV] What *is* man, that he should be clean? and *he which is* born of a woman, that he should be righteous? - [ASV] What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? - [YLT] What *is* man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? ### Notes on Job 15:14 - ## Job 15:15 - [KJV] Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. - [ASV] Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: - [YLT] Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. ### Notes on Job 15:15 - ## Job 15:16 - [KJV] How much more abominable and filthy *is* man, which drinketh iniquity like water? - [ASV] How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water! - [YLT] Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness. ### Notes on Job 15:16 - ## Job 15:17 - [KJV] I will shew thee, hear me; and that *which* I have seen I will declare; - [ASV] I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare: - [YLT] I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare: ### Notes on Job 15:17 - ## Job 15:18 - [KJV] Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid *it*: - [ASV] (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it; - [YLT] Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers. ### Notes on Job 15:18 - ## Job 15:19 - [KJV] Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. - [ASV] Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them): - [YLT] To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst: ### Notes on Job 15:19 - ## Job 15:20 - [KJV] The wicked man travaileth with pain all *his* days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. - [ASV] The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. - [YLT] 'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one. ### Notes on Job 15:20 - ## Job 15:21 - [KJV] A dreadful sound *is* in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. - [ASV] A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. - [YLT] A fearful voice *is* in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him. ### Notes on Job 15:21 - ## Job 15:22 - [KJV] He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. - [ASV] He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword. - [YLT] He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched *is* he for the sword. ### Notes on Job 15:22 - ## Job 15:23 - [KJV] He wandereth abroad for bread, *saying*, Where *is it*? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. - [ASV] He wandereth abroad for bread, *saying*, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. - [YLT] He is wandering for bread -- 'Where *is* it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness. ### Notes on Job 15:23 - ## Job 15:24 - [KJV] Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. - [ASV] Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. - [YLT] Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster. ### Notes on Job 15:24 - ## Job 15:25 - [KJV] For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. - [ASV] Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty; - [YLT] For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty. ### Notes on Job 15:25 - ## Job 15:26 - [KJV] He runneth upon him, *even* on *his* neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: - [ASV] He runneth upon him with a *stiff* neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers; - [YLT] He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields. ### Notes on Job 15:26 - ## Job 15:27 - [KJV] Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on *his* flanks. - [ASV] Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins; - [YLT] For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over *his* confidence. ### Notes on Job 15:27 - ## Job 15:28 - [KJV] And he dwelleth in desolate cities, *and* in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. - [ASV] And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps; - [YLT] And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps. ### Notes on Job 15:28 - ## Job 15:29 - [KJV] He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. - [ASV] He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth. - [YLT] He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance. ### Notes on Job 15:29 - ## Job 15:30 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of *God's* mouth shall he go away. - [YLT] He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth! ### Notes on Job 15:30 - ## Job 15:31 - [KJV] Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. - [ASV] Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense. - [YLT] Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence. ### Notes on Job 15:31 - ## Job 15:32 - [KJV] It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. - [ASV] It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green. - [YLT] Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. ### Notes on Job 15:32 - ## Job 15:33 - [KJV] He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. - [ASV] He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree. - [YLT] He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom. ### Notes on Job 15:33 - ## Job 15:34 - [KJV] For the congregation of hypocrites *shall be* desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. - [ASV] For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery. - [YLT] For the company of the profane *is* gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery. ### Notes on Job 15:34 - ## Job 15:35 - [KJV] They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. - [ASV] They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit. - [YLT] To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit. ### Notes on Job 15:35 -