| Job 15:1 |
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, |
| Job 15:2 |
Should a wise man answer with the knowledge of wind, / And should he fill his belly with the east wind? |
| Job 15:3 |
Should he argue with useless talk / And with words by which he cannot avail? |
| Job 15:4 |
Indeed you do away with the fear [of God] / And restrain meditation before God. |
| Job 15:5 |
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, / And you choose the tongue of the crafty. |
| Job 15:6 |
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; / And your own lips testify against you. |
| Job 15:7 |
Are you the first man born? / Or were you brought forth before the hills? |
| Job 15:8 |
Did you listen in on the secret council of God? / And do you limit wisdom to yourself? |
| Job 15:9 |
What do you know that we do not know? / [What] do you understand that is not with us? |
| Job 15:10 |
Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us, / Older than your father. |
| Job 15:11 |
Are the consolations of God too small for you, / Or the word [spoken] gently to you? |
| Job 15:12 |
Why does your heart take you away? / And why do your eyes flash, |
| Job 15:13 |
That you turn your spirit against God / And let words go forth from your mouth? |
| Job 15:14 |
What is mortal man, that he can be clean, / Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? |
| Job 15:15 |
Indeed, He puts no trust in His holy ones; / Even the heavens are not clean in His eyes. |
| Job 15:16 |
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt! / [How much less] a man who drinks wrong like water! |
| Job 15:17 |
I will tell you; hear me; / And what I have seen, that will I recount, |
| Job 15:18 |
What wise men have declared, / And have not hidden, from their fathers; |
| Job 15:19 |
To whom alone the land was given, / And no stranger passed in their midst: |
| Job 15:20 |
For all his days the wicked man travails in pain, / And numbered years are stored up for the ruthless man. |
| Job 15:21 |
The sound of terrors is in his ears; / While [he is] at peace, the destroyer will come upon him. |
| Job 15:22 |
He does not believe that he will return from the darkness, / And he is spied out for the sword. |
| Job 15:23 |
He wanders for bread--where is it? / He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand. |
| Job 15:24 |
Distress and straits terrify him; / They prevail against him, like a king prepared for the attack; |
| Job 15:25 |
Because he stretched out his hand against God, / And against the Almighty he acted mightily, |
| Job 15:26 |
Running against Him with a stiff neck, / With the thick bosses of his shield; |
| Job 15:27 |
Because he covered his face with his fatness / And gathered fat upon his loins; |
| Job 15:28 |
And he dwelt in desolated cities, / In houses which should not have been inhabited, / Which were appointed to become heaps. |
| Job 15:29 |
He will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure; / Nor will his produce bend down to the earth. |
| Job 15:30 |
He will not go away from darkness; / The flame will dry up his shoots, / And by the breath of His mouth he will go away. |
| Job 15:31 |
Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; / For vanity will be his recompense. |
| Job 15:32 |
It will be fully paid before his day, / And his branch will not be flourishing. |
| Job 15:33 |
He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine, / And he will cast off his blossom like an olive tree. |
| Job 15:34 |
For the company of the profane will be barren, / And fire will devour the tents of bribery. |
| Job 15:35 |
They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, / And their heart prepares deceit. |