Job 15:1
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 15:2
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
Job 15:3
Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
Job 15:4
Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before *God.
Job 15:5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
Job 15:7
Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
Job 15:8
Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
Job 15:9
What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou which is not in us?
Job 15:10
Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
Job 15:11
Are the consolations of *God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?
Job 15:12
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
Job 15:13
That thou turnest thy spirit against *God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
Job 15:14
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
Job 15:16
How much less the abominable and corrupt, --man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
Job 15:17
I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
Job 15:18
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
Job 15:19
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Job 15:20
All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
Job 15:21
The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
Job 15:23
He wandereth abroad for bread, --where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 15:24
Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
Job 15:25
For he hath stretched out his hand against *God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
Job 15:26
He runneth against him, with outstretched neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
Job 15:27
For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his flanks.
Job 15:28
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
Job 15:29
He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon 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 him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
Job 15:32
It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
Job 15:33
He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
Job 15:34
For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
Job 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.