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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 15 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Job 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/14.htm" title="Job 14">◄</a> Job 15 <a href="../job/16.htm" title="Job 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/15-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Eli-Phaz the Temanite will answer and say,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Shall a wise one answer knowledge of wind, and fill his belly with the east wind?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Reproving with words he shall not profit, and speeches will be of no use in them.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Also thou wilt bring to nought, fear, and thou wilt withhold meditation before God.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For thy mouth will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose the tongue of the crafty.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thy mouth will condemn thee, and not I: and thy lips will testify against thee.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Shalt thou be the firm man born? and hadst thou a beginning before the hills?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Shalt thou hear in the consultation of God? and wilt thou reserve wisdom to thyself?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>What knewest thou and we shall not know? wilt thou understand and it not be with us?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Also the gray headed and old man with us, great of days above thy fathers.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Is it small with thee the consolations of God? and a word covered with thee?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Why shall thy heart take thee? and why shall thine eyes wink?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>That thou wilt turn thy spirit against God, and thou broughtest words from thy mouth?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What is man that he will be clean? and that he will be just, being born of woman?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, in his holy ones he will, not trust; and the heavens were not clean in his eyes.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>How much more abominable and corrupt is man drinking iniquity as water!<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will show thee, hear to me; and that I saw I will recount;<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Which the wise ones will announce, and he hid it not from their fathers.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>To them alone the earth was given, and a stranger passed not in the midst of them.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>All the days the unjust one himself being pained, and numbering the years they were hidden to him terrifying.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The voice of fears in his ears: in peace he destroying shall come upon him.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He will not believe to turn back from darkness, and he was waited for by the sword.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was ready at his hand.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Straitness and distress shall terrify him; they shall overpower him as a king ready for war.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For he stretched forth his hand against God, and he will strengthen himself against the Almighty.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He will run against him upon the neck, upon the thicknesses of his shields:<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For he covered his face with his fat, and he will make fatness upon the flank.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he will dwell in cities out off, the houses shall not be inhabited by them, which were ready for heaps.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He shall not be rich, and his wealth shall not rise up; their possession shall not extend upon the earth.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He shall not depart from darkness; the flame shall dry up his suckers, and by the breath of his mouth shall he depart.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Before his day it shall be completed, and his branch was not green.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He will shake off as a vine his unripe grapes, and he will cast his flower as the olive.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For the assembly of the profane is hard, and fire consumed the tents of the gift.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He conceiving trouble and he bringing forth vanity, and their belly shall prepare deceit.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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