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Job
Explores the themes of suffering and faith through the story of Job, a man tested by losing everything.
Chapter 15
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1
KJV:
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Geneva:
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,
2
KJV:
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Geneva:
Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?
3
KJV:
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Geneva:
Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?
4
KJV:
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Geneva:
Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
5
KJV:
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Geneva:
For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
6
KJV:
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Geneva:
Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.
7
KJV:
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Geneva:
Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
8
KJV:
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
Geneva:
Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?
9
KJV:
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
Geneva:
What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?
10
KJV:
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Geneva:
With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.
11
KJV:
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Geneva:
Seeme the consolations of God smal vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?
12
KJV:
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
Geneva:
Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,
13
KJV:
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
Geneva:
That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?
14
KJV:
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Geneva:
What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
15
KJV:
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Geneva:
Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
16
KJV:
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Geneva:
How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
17
KJV:
I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
Geneva:
I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:
18
KJV:
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
Geneva:
Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:
19
KJV:
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Geneva:
To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them.
20
KJV:
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Geneva:
The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.
21
KJV:
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
Geneva:
A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
22
KJV:
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Geneva:
He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.
23
KJV:
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Geneva:
He wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
24
KJV:
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Geneva:
Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.
25
KJV:
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
Geneva:
For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.
26
KJV:
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Geneva:
Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.
27
KJV:
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
Geneva:
Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
28
KJV:
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Geneva:
Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,
29
KJV:
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
Geneva:
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.
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.
Geneva:
He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.
31
KJV:
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Geneva:
He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.
32
KJV:
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Geneva:
His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.
33
KJV:
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Geneva:
God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.
34
KJV:
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Geneva:
For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
35
KJV:
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Geneva:
For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.
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