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