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    Job 15

    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 flashISV — 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 handISV — 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

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