Job Chapter 15 (ESV)

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undefined Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

undefined “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

undefined Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?

undefined But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.

undefined For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

undefined Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

undefined “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

undefined Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

undefined What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

undefined Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.

undefined Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?

undefined Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

undefined that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?

undefined What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

undefined Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

undefined how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!

undefined “I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare

undefined (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,

undefined to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).

undefined The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

undefined Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

undefined He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

undefined He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

undefined distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.

undefined Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,

undefined running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;

undefined because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist

undefined and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;

undefined he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;

undefined he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.

undefined Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.

undefined It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.

undefined He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.

undefined For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

undefined They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”

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