# Job 15

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
2. “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind?
3. Should he argue with useless talk, with words that do no good?
4. But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering devotion before God.
5. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6. Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
7. Were you the first human being ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8. Do you listen in on the council of God? Do you keep wisdom to yourself?
9. What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that we do not?
10. Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, men older than your father.
11. Are the comforts of God too small for you, or a word spoken gently to you?
12. Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13. so that you turn your spirit against God and let such words come out of your mouth?
14. What is a mortal, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
15. Look, he puts no trust in his holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in his sight.
16. How much less a man who is detestable and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water!
17. I will explain it to you; listen to me, and I will tell you what I have seen,
18. what the wise have declared, not hiding what they received from their ancestors,
19. to whom alone the land was given, when no foreigner passed among them.
20. The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years stored up for the ruthless.
21. Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace the destroyer comes on him.
22. He does not believe he will return from darkness, and he is marked out for the sword.
23. He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
24. Distress and anguish terrify him; they overpower him like a king prepared for battle.
25. For he has stretched out his hand against God and defied the Almighty,
26. charging at him headlong with the thick bosses of his shields,
27. because he has covered his face with his fat and put layers of fat on his waist.
28. He lives in ruined cities, in houses where no one lives, which are destined to become heaps of rubble.
29. He will not become rich, and his wealth will not last; his possessions will not spread over the land.
30. He will not escape the darkness; a flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will pass away.
31. Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
32. It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
33. He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine and cast off his blossoms like an olive tree.
34. For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
35. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb prepares deceit.”

## Nearby chapters

[Job 14](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/14.md)
[Job 16](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/16.md)

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