Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Job 10:1 But Eliphaz and those that were with him were astonished at these things, and they sat down with me and replying to me, spoke in boastful words concerning me for twenty seven days.

Job 10:2 They repeated it again and again that I suffered deservedly in this way for having committed many sins, and that there was no hope left for me, but I retorted to these men in zest of contention myself.

Job 10:3 And they rose in anger, ready to part in wrathful spirit. But Elihu conjured them to stay yet a little while until he would have shown them what it was.

Job 10:4 “For,” said he, “so many days did you pass, allowing Job to boast that he is just. But I shall no longer suffer it.

Job 10:5 For from the beginning did I continue crying over him, remembering his former happiness. But now he speaks boastfully and in overbearing pride he says that he has his throne in the heavens.

Job 10:6 Therefore, hear me, and I will tell you what is the cause of his destiny.

Job 10:7 Then, imbued with the spirit of Satan. Elihu spoke hard words which are written down in the records left of Elihu.

Job 10:8 And after he had ended, God appeared to me in a storm and in clouds, and spoke. blaming Elihu and showing me that he who had spoken was not a man, but a wild beast.

Job 10:9 And when God had finished speaking to me, the Lord spoke to Eliphaz: “You and your friends have sinned in that you have not spoken the truth concerning my servant Job.

Job 10:10 Therefore rise up and make him bring a sin-offering for you in order that your sins may be forgiven; for were it not for him, I would have destroyed you.”

Job 10:11 And so they brought to me all that belonged to a sacrifice, and I took it and brought for them a sin-offering, and the Lord received it favorably and forgave them their wrong.

Job 10:12 Then when Eliphaz, Baldad and Sophar saw that God had graciously pardoned their sin through His servant Job, but that He did not deign to pardon Elihu, then did Eliphaz begin to sing a hymn, while the others responded, their soldiers also joining while standing by the altar.

Job 10:13 And Eliphaz spoke in this manner. “Taken off is the sin and our injustice gone;

Job 10:14 But Elihu, the evil one, shall have no remembrance among the living; his luminary is extinguished and has lost its light.

Job 10:15 The glory of his lamp will announce itself for him, for he is the son of darkness. and not of light.

Job 10:16 The doorkeepers of the place of darkness shall give him their glory and beauty as share; His Kingdom has vanished, his throne has moldered, and the honor of his stature is in (Sheol) Hades.

Job 10:17 For he has loved the beauty of the serpent and the scales (skins) of the dragon, his gall and his venom belongs to the Northern One (Zphuni = Adder).

Job 10:18 For he did not own himself to the Lord nor did he fear him, but he hated those whom He has chosen (known).

Job 10:19 In this manner God forgot him, and “the holy ones” abandoned him, his wrath and anger shall be to him desolation and he will have no mercy in his heart, nor peace, because he, had the venom of an adder on his tongue.

Job 10:20 Righteous is the Lord, and His judgments are true, With him there is no preference of person, for He judges all alike.

Job 10:21 The Lord comes! The “holy ones” have been prepared: The crowns and the prizes of the victors precede them!

Job 10:22 Let the saints rejoice, and let their hearts exult in gladness; for they shall receive the glory which is in store for them. Chorus.

Job 10:23 Our sins are forgiven, our injustice has been cleansed, but Elihu has no remembrance among the living.”

Job 10:24 After Eliphaz had finished the hymn, we rose and went back to the city, each to the house where they lived.

Job 10:25 And the people made a feast for me in gratitude and delight of God, and all my friends came back to me.

Job 10:26 And all those who had seen me in my former state of happiness, asked me saying: “What are those three things here among us?”