Job 15

1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,RV1885 — Job 15:1

2 Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?RV1885 — Job 15:2

3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?RV1885 — Job 15:3

4 Yea, thou doest away with fear, and restrainest devotion before God.RV1885 — Job 15:4

5 For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.RV1885 — Job 15:5

6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee.RV1885 — Job 15:6

7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?RV1885 — Job 15:7

8 Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?RV1885 — Job 15:8

9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?RV1885 — Job 15:9

10 With us are both the grayheaded and the very aged men, much elder than thy father.RV1885 — Job 15:10

11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?RV1885 — Job 15:11

12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?RV1885 — Job 15:12

13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.RV1885 — Job 15:13

14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?RV1885 — Job 15:14

15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.RV1885 — Job 15:15

16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, a man that drinketh iniquity like water!RV1885 — Job 15:16

17 I will shew thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare:RV1885 — Job 15:17

18 (Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;RV1885 — Job 15:18

19 Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:)RV1885 — Job 15:19

20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.RV1885 — Job 15:20

21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him:RV1885 — Job 15:21

22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword:RV1885 — Job 15:22

23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:RV1885 — Job 15:23

24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle:RV1885 — Job 15:24

25 Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;RV1885 — Job 15:25

26 He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers:RV1885 — Job 15:26

27 Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his flanks;RV1885 — Job 15:27

28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.RV1885 — Job 15:28

29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth.RV1885 — 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.RV1885 — Job 15:30

31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself: for vanity shall be his recompence.RV1885 — Job 15:31

32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.RV1885 — Job 15:32

33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.RV1885 — Job 15:33

34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.RV1885 — Job 15:34

35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.RV1885 — Job 15:35