Jb 15:1And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Jb 15:2 Should a wise man answer with the knowledge of wind, / And should he fill his belly with the east wind?
Jb 15:3 Should he argue with useless talk / And with words by which he cannot avail?
Jb 15:4 Indeed you do away with the fear of God / And restrain meditation before God.
Jb 15:5 For your iniquity instructs your mouth, / And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Jb 15:6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; / And your own lips testify against you.
Jb 15:7 Are you the first man born? / Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Jb 15:8 Did you listen in on the secret council of God? / And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Jb 15:9 What do you know that we do not know? / What do you understand that is not with us?
Jb 15:10 Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us, / Older than your father.
Jb 15:11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, / Or the word spoken gently to you?
Jb 15:12 Why does your heart take you away? / And why do your eyes flash,
Jb 15:13 That you turn your spirit against God / And let words go forth from your mouth?
Jb 15:14 What is mortal man, that he can be clean, / Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Jb 15:15 Indeed, He puts no trust in His holy ones; / Even the heavens are not clean in His eyes.
Jb 15:16 How much less one who is abominable and corrupt! / How much less a man who drinks wrong like water!
Jb 15:17 I will tell you; hear me; / And what I have seen, that will I recount,
Jb 15:18 What wise men have declared, / And have not hidden, from their fathers;
Jb 15:19 To whom alone the land was given, / And no stranger passed in their midst:
Jb 15:20 For all his days the wicked man travails in pain, / And numbered years are stored up for the ruthless man.
Jb 15:21 The sound of terrors is in his ears; / While he is at peace, the destroyer will come upon him.
Jb 15:22 He does not believe that he will return from the darkness, / And he is spied out for the sword.
Jb 15:23 He wanders for bread — where is it? / He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
Jb 15:24 Distress and straits terrify him; / They prevail against him, like a king prepared for the attack;
Jb 15:25 Because he stretched out his hand against God, / And against the Almighty he acted mightily,
Jb 15:26 Running against Him with a stiff neck, / With the thick bosses of his shield;
Jb 15:27 Because he covered his face with his fatness / And gathered fat upon his loins;
Jb 15:28 And he dwelt in desolated cities, / In houses which should not have been inhabited, / Which were appointed to become heaps.
Jb 15:29 He will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure; / Nor will his produce bend down to the earth.
Jb 15:30 He will not go away from darkness; / The flame will dry up his shoots, / And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
Jb 15:31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; / For vanity will be his recompense.
Jb 15:32 It will be fully paid before his day, / And his branch will not be flourishing.
Jb 15:33 He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine, / And he will cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
Jb 15:34 For the company of the profane will be barren, / And fire will devour the tents of bribery.
Jb 15:35 They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, / And their heart prepares deceit.
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