Job 15

Job Chapter 15 ESV

1Eliphaz reproveth Job of impiety in justifying himself: 17he proveth from tradition the disquietude of wicked men.
1 Then 1Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2 “Should 1a wise man answer with 2windy knowledge, and fill his 3belly with 4the east wind?
3 Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
4 But you are doing away with the fear of Goda and hindering meditation before God.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6 Your 1own mouth condemns you, and not I; 2your own lips testify against you.
7 1“Are you the first man who was born? Or 2were you brought forth 3before the hills?
8 Have you listened in 1the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 1What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10 1Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
11 Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
13 that you turn your 1spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?
14 1What is man, 2that he can be pure? Or he who is 3born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15 Behold, Goda 1puts no trust in his 2holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
16 1how much less one who is abominable and 2corrupt, a man who 3drinks injustice like water!
17 “I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare
18 (what wise men have told, without hiding it 1from their fathers,
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no 1stranger passed among them).
20 The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the 1years that are laid up for 2the ruthless.
21 1Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in 2prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
22 He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.
23 He 1wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
24 distress and anguish terrify him; they 1prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,
26 1running 2stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
27 because he has 1covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
28 and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
29 he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;a
30 he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by 1the breath of his mouth he will depart.
31 Let him not 1trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
32 It will be paid in full 1before his time, and his branch will not be green.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
34 For 1the company of the godless is barren, and 2fire consumes the tents of bribery.
35 They 1conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their 2womb prepares deceit.”
Job 15

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