Job 15

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1. (Job 15:1) Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2. (Job 15:2) "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
3. (Job 15:3) Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4. (Job 15:4) Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
5. (Job 15:5) For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
6. (Job 15:6) Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
7. (Job 15:7) "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
8. (Job 15:8) Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9. (Job 15:9) What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
10. (Job 15:10) With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
11. (Job 15:11) Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12. (Job 15:12) Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
13. (Job 15:13) That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14. (Job 15:14) What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. (Job 15:15) Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16. (Job 15:16) how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17. (Job 15:17) "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:
18. (Job 15:18) (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
19. (Job 15:19) to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
20. (Job 15:20) the wicked man writhes in 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 on him.
22. (Job 15:22) He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.
23. (Job 15:23) He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows 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 has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
26. (Job 15:26) he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;
27. (Job 15:27) because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.
28. (Job 15:28) He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one 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. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
31. (Job 15:31) Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.
32. (Job 15:32) It shall be accomplished before his time. 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. Their heart prepares deceit."