Job 15 - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

Chapter 15Eliphaz warns Job again

1Then Eliphaz, the man from Teman, replied to Job. This is what he said:

2‘If you were wise,

you would not answer us with such silly ideas.

The words that come out from inside you are only a hot wind!

3No wise man would argue in such a useless way.

The things that you say do not mean anything.

4You show that you do not respect God.

You turn other people away from him.

5It is your sin that causes you to speak like that.

You try to say clever things that will deceive people.

6I do not need to show that you are guilty.

Your own words show that you are wrong.

7You were not the first human to be born.

You were not alive when God made the hills.

8You do not know God's secret plans.

You are not the only wise person in the world.

9You do not know any more than we know.

We understand as much as you do.

10The old men agree with us.

They are older and wiser even than your father.

11You think that God's kind words are not important.

But they should be enough for you.

12You have allowed your thoughts to confuse you.

We can see in your eyes that you are very angry.

13Why are you so angry against God?

You should not say such wicked things.

14No one who is human can be truly pure and righteous.

15God does not even trust his own angels.

He knows that they make mistakes.

16So he certainly will not trust people.

People are wicked and cannot think true thoughts.

They like to do evil things,

as if they are drinking water!

17So listen to me. I will explain something to you.

I will tell you what I have seen.

18These are things that wise men have taught me.

They did not hide the truth.

They learned these things from their ancestors.

19They were the people who received the land.

No foreigners were there to deceive them.

20They knew this:

A wicked person will have trouble all his life.

Anyone who is cruel will suffer every year that he lives.

21He will hear things that frighten him.

He may think that he is safe,

but robbers will attack him.

22He is afraid to go out in the dark.

He thinks that someone may kill him.

23The wicked person walks about to look for food.

He says, “Where is it?”

He knows that he cannot escape from trouble.

24He is afraid and confused.

Trouble is ready to attack him,

like a king with his army.

25That happens to the person who turns against God.

He thinks that he is greater than Almighty God.

26He is proud enough to attack God.

He holds a big shield as he runs to attack God!

27He eats too much

and his whole body is very fat.

28He lives in a town that is empty.

No one else lives in the houses there.

The buildings will soon fall down

and they will become heaps of stones.

29He will not be rich.

He will lose his valuable things.

Everything that he has will disappear.

30When it becomes dark,

he will not be able to escape.

He will be like a tree that fire has burned.

God's breath will blow him away!

31He may trust in useless things to save him,

but he is deceiving himself.

Any help that he receives will also be useless.

32Before he is old,

his life will end.

Like a tree that makes no leaves,

he will have no success in life.

33He will be like a vine that loses its grapes.

They fall off before they are ready to eat.

He will be like an olive tree that loses its flowers,

so that no olives grow on it.

34People who turn away from God are like that.

They have no family to live after them.

If they use the money from bribes to build their homes,

fire will destroy those homes.

35They make plans to cause trouble,

so that evil things happen.

Lies are what come out from inside them.’