Job 15

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,DBY — Job 15:1

2 Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,DBY — Job 15:2

3 Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?DBY — Job 15:3

4 Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.DBY — Job 15:4

5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.DBY — Job 15:5

6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.DBY — Job 15:6

7 Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?DBY — Job 15:7

8 Hast thou listened in the secret council of God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?DBY — Job 15:8

9 What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?DBY — Job 15:9

10 Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.DBY — Job 15:10

11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?DBY — Job 15:11

12 Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?DBY — Job 15:12

13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?DBY — Job 15:13

14 What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?DBY — Job 15:14

15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:DBY — Job 15:15

16 How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!DBY — Job 15:16

17 I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;DBY — Job 15:17

18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;DBY — Job 15:18

19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.DBY — Job 15:19

20 All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.DBY — Job 15:20

21 The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.DBY — Job 15:21

22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.DBY — Job 15:22

23 He wandereth abroad for bread, where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.DBY — Job 15:23

24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.DBY — Job 15:24

25 For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:DBY — Job 15:25

26 He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;DBY — Job 15:26

27 For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.DBY — Job 15:27

28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.DBY — Job 15:28

29 He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.DBY — Job 15:29

30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.DBY — Job 15:30

31 Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;DBY — Job 15:31

32 It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.DBY — Job 15:32

33 He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.DBY — Job 15:33

34 For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.DBY — Job 15:34

35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.DBY — Job 15:35