15Job 15

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,Select Job 15:1

2“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?Select Job 15:2

3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?Select Job 15:3

4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.Select Job 15:4

5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.Select Job 15:5

6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.Select Job 15:6

7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?Select Job 15:7

8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?Select Job 15:8

9What do you know, that we don’t know? What do you understand, which is not in us?Select Job 15:9

10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.Select Job 15:10

11Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?Select Job 15:11

12Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,Select Job 15:12

13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?Select Job 15:13

14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?Select Job 15:14

15Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;Select Job 15:15

16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!Select Job 15:16

17“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:Select Job 15:17

18(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;Select Job 15:18

19to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):Select Job 15:19

20the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.Select Job 15:20

21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.Select Job 15:21

22He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.Select Job 15:22

23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.Select Job 15:23

24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.Select Job 15:24

25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;Select Job 15:25

26he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;Select Job 15:26

27because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.Select Job 15:27

28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.Select Job 15:28

29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.Select Job 15:29

30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.Select Job 15:30

31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.Select Job 15:31

32It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.Select Job 15:32

33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.Select Job 15:33

34For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.Select Job 15:34

35They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”Select Job 15:35