1 Then Eliphaz from Teman responded: ISV — Job 15:1
2 “Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east? ISV — Job 15:2
3 Should he engage in unprofitable argument, or give a speech that benefits no one? ISV — Job 15:3
4 Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God. ISV — Job 15:4
5 Because your sin dictates your speech, a15:5 Lit. mouth you have chosen the language b15:5 Lit. tongue of the crafty. ISV — Job 15:5
6 Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you.” ISV — Job 15:6
7 “Were you the first person c15:7 Lit. man to be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made? ISV — Job 15:7
8 Have you listened in on God’s secret council? Have you limited wisdom only to yourself? ISV — Job 15:8
9 What do you know that we don’t know, or that you understand and that isn’t clear to us? ISV — Job 15:9
10 “We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far older d15:10 Lit. are older by many days than your father. ISV — Job 15:10
11 Are God’s encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken e15:11 The Heb. lacks spoken gently to you? ISV — Job 15:11
12 Why have your emotions f15:12 Lit. heart carried you away? And why do your eyes flash ISV — Job 15:12
13 that you turn your anger g15:13 Lit. spirit against God and speak words like this? ISV — Job 15:13
14 “What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he’ll be in the right? ISV — Job 15:14
15 Look, if God h15:15 Lit. he doesn’t trust his holy ones, i15:15 Cf. Job 4:18 if even the heavens aren’t pure as he looks at them, ISV — Job 15:15
16 then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?” ISV — Job 15:16
17 “I’ll tell you what, listen to me! Let me relate what I’ve seen, ISV — Job 15:17
18 which is what wise men have explained, who didn’t withhold anything from their ancestors. ISV — Job 15:18
19 To them alone was the land given, when no invader j15:19 Or foreigner passed through their midst. ISV — Job 15:19
20 “The wicked person writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless. ISV — Job 15:20
21 Terrifying sounds ring k15:21 The Heb. lacks ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack l15:21 Or come upon him him. ISV — Job 15:21
22 He does not believe he will escape m15:22 Or turn aside darkness; he is destined for the sword. ISV — Job 15:22
23 He wanders around for food—where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near. n15:23 Lit. is at hand ISV — Job 15:23
24 Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack. ISV — Job 15:24
25 “For he has raised his fist against God, defying the Almighty. ISV — Job 15:25
26 He defiantly ran against him carrying his thick, reinforced shield. ISV — Job 15:26
27 Though he covered his face with fat, and is grossly overweight at the waist, ISV — Job 15:27
28 He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble. ISV — Job 15:28
29 “He won’t become rich and his wealth won’t last; he won’t expand his holdings to cover the land. ISV — Job 15:29
30 He won’t escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he’ll depart by the breath of God’s o15:30 Lit. his mouth. ISV — Job 15:30
31 Let him not trust in a worthless speech. He leads only himself astray, for emptiness will be his reward. ISV — Job 15:31
32 This will be accomplished before his time; p15:32 Lit. day his branches won’t grow luxuriant. ISV — Job 15:32
33 “He is like a vine that drops its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that loses its blossoms. ISV — Job 15:33
34 For the company of the godless is desolation, and fire consumes the tents of those who q15:34 The Heb. lacks those who bribe. ISV — Job 15:34
35 For they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb is pregnant r15:35 Lit. womb fashions; i.e., as a womb fashions a child with deception.” ISV — Job 15:35