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Job 15
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
2Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
2Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
3Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
3Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
4Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
4Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation beforeGod.
5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
6It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
7Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
7Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
8Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?
8Hast thou listened in the secret council ofGod? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
9What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?
9What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?
10With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.
10Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
11Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?
11Are the consolations ofGod too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?
12Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;
12Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
13That thou turnest thy spirit againstGod, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
14What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
14What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
16How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
16How much less the abominable and corrupt, — man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
17Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:
17I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
18(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;
18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
19For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)
19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
20All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
21A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
21The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
22He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
23He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
23He wandereth abroad for bread, — where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
24Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
25Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,
25For he hath stretched out his hand againstGod, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
26Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,
26He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
27Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
27For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.
28And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.
28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
29He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.
29He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.
30He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
31Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
31Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
32His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
32It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
33He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
33He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.