15:2 Should a chacham (wise man) utter vain knowledge, and fill his inner being with the east wind?
15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable davar (talk)? Or with speeches wherewith no good is done?
15:4 Yea, thou makest void yireh [Elohim], and doth diminish si’akh (meditation) before El.
15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine avon, and thou choosest the leshon arumim (tongue of the crafty).
15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and loh Ani (not I); yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
15:7 Art thou harishon adam (the first man) that was born? Or wast thou made before the hills?
15:8 Hast thou attended to the sod Eloah (counsel of G-d)? And dost thou limit chochmah to thyself?
15:9 Of what dost thou have da’as, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
15:10 Both the grayheaded and very aged men are among us, much elder than avicha.
15:11 Are the tanechumot El (consolations of G-d) not enough for thee? Or the davar that deals gently with thee?
15:12 Why doth thine lev carry thee away? And why do thy eyes flash,
15:13 That thou ventest thy ruach against El (G-d), and lettest such words pour out of thy mouth?
15:14 What is enosh, that he should be pure [in the sight of Hashem]? And he which is born of an isha, that yitzdak (he should be in the right)?
15:15 If He trusteth not His Kadoshim; yea, Shomayim is not pure in His eyes.
15:16 How much more vile and corrupt is ish, which drinketh iniquity like mayim?
15:17 I will show thee, shema to me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
15:18 Things which chachamim declare from their avot without concealment;
15:19 Unto whom alone ha’aretz was given, and no zar passed among them.
15:20 The reshah travaileth with pain all his yamim, and numbered shanim are reserved for the oppressor.
15:21 A dreadful sound is in his oznayim; during shalom the shoded (destroyer) shall come upon him.
15:22 He believeth not in a return from choshech, and he is marked for the cherev.
15:23 He wandereth about after lechem, saying, Where is it? He has da’as the Yom Choshech is near at hand for him.
15:24 Distress and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall seize him as a melech poised for battle.
15:25 For he stretcheth out his yad against El (G-d), and with insolence vaunts himself against Shaddai.
15:26 He charges against Him, with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his mogen (shield);
15:27 Though he covereth his panim with his fatness, and addeth fat on his flanks;
15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate towns, and in batim (houses) which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to crumble to rubble.
15:29 He shall not be osher, neither shall his substance continue; neither shall their possessions spread over ha’aretz.
15:30 He shall not escape from choshech; the flame shall wither his branches, and in the ruach of his mouth shall he perish.
15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in shav (vanity); for shav shall be his recompense.
15:32 His Yom is not yet; then it is accomplished, and his branch shall not flourish.
15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape like the gefen, and shall cast off his blossom like the zayit (olive tree).
15:34 For the Adat Chanef (congregation of hypocrites) shall be barren, and eish shall consume the ohalim of bribery.
15:35 They conceive amal (trouble), and give birth to evil, and their belly worketh mirmar (deceit).
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