Job 15

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1. (Job 15:1) Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2. (Job 15:2) Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
3. (Job 15:3) Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4. (Job 15:4) Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
5. (Job 15:5) For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6. (Job 15:6) Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7. (Job 15:7) Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
8. (Job 15:8) Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
9. (Job 15:9) What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
10. (Job 15:10) With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
11. (Job 15:11) Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?
12. (Job 15:12) Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
13. (Job 15:13) That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?
14. (Job 15:14) What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. (Job 15:15) Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
16. (Job 15:16) How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
17. (Job 15:17) I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:
18. (Job 15:18) (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
19. (Job 15:19) Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
20. (Job 15:20) The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21. (Job 15:21) A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22. (Job 15:22) He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.
23. (Job 15:23) @@He wandereth abroad for bread, @9saying@7, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24. (Job 15:24) Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25. (Job 15:25) Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
26. (Job 15:26) @@He runneth upon him with a @9stiff@7 neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
27. (Job 15:27) Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
28. (Job 15:28) And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
29. (Job 15:29) He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
30. (Job 15:30) @@He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of @9God's@7 mouth shall he go away.
31. (Job 15:31) Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
32. (Job 15:32) It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
33. (Job 15:33) He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
34. (Job 15:34) For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
35. (Job 15:35) They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.