Job Chapter 15

• Job 15:1
  Job.
• Job 15:2
  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
• Job 15:3
  “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
• Job 15:4
  Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
• Job 15:5
  Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
• Job 15:6
  For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
• Job 15:7
  Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
• Job 15:8
  “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?
• Job 15:9
  Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
• Job 15:10
  What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
• Job 15:11
  With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.
• Job 15:12
  Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
• Job 15:13
  Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
• Job 15:14
  that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
• Job 15:15
  What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 15:16
  Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
• Job 15:17
  how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
• Job 15:18
  “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare
• Job 15:19
  (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
• Job 15:20
  to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
• Job 15:21
  the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
• Job 15:22
  A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.
• Job 15:23
  He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
• Job 15:24
  He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
• Job 15:25
  Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
• Job 15:26
  Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,
• Job 15:27
  he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,
• Job 15:28
  because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
• Job 15:29
  He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.
• Job 15:30
  He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.
• Job 15:31
  He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.
• Job 15:32
  Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.
• Job 15:33
  It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.
• Job 15:34
  He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
• Job 15:35
  For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
• Job 15:36
  They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”