Job 15:1
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
Job 15:4
Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
Job 15:5
For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6
Your own mouth comdemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.
Job 15:7
Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
Job 15:8
Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
Job 15:9
What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
Job 15:10
With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.
Job 15:11
Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
Job 15:12
Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
Job 15:13
That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15
Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Job 15:16
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
Job 15:17
I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
Job 15:18
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
Job 15:19
To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Job 15:20
The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Job 15:21
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
Job 15:22
He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Job 15:23
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 15:24
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15:25
For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
Job 15:26
He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Job 15:27
Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks.
Job 15:28
And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
Job 15:29
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth.
Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
Job 15:31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.
Job 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
Job 15:33
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job 15:34
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.