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Job 15
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
2Doth a wise man answer <FI>with<Fi> vain knowledge? And fill <FI>with<Fi> an east wind his belly?
2Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches--no profit in them?
3Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
4Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
4Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
5For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
6Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
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.
7The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
7Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?
8Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
8Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?
9What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou--and it is not with us?
9What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?
10Both the gray-headed And the very aged <FI>are<Fi> among us--Greater than thy father <FI>in<Fi> days.
10With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.
11Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word <FI>is<Fi> with thee,
11Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?
12What--doth thine heart take thee away? And what--are thine eyes high?
12Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;
13For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
13So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?
14What <FI>is<Fi> man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
14What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?
15Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
15Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes;
16Also--surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
16How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
17I shew thee--hearken to me--And this I have seen and declare:
17Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:
18Which the wise declare--And have not hid--from their fathers.
18(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;
19To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
19For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)
20`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
20The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small.
21A fearful voice <FI>is<Fi> in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
21A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:
22He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched <FI>is<Fi> he for the sword.
22He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
23He is wandering for bread--`Where <FI>is<Fi> it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
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:
24Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
24He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:
25For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
25Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,
26He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
26Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,
27For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over <FI>his<Fi> confidence.
27Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;
28And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
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.
29He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.
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.
30He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!
30He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
31Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
31Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.
32Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
32His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.
33He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
33He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.