Job 15 (AKJV) · Opened

1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?

4Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.

5For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

7Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

8Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

9What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

10With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.

11Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?

12Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?so that you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?

14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

15Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

17I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

19To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

20The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

22He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

25For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

26He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

27Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks.Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,

28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth.He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.

30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

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