Job 15 — UBES

15Verse 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,^{Verse 2}Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom?
And does he fill up the pain of his belly,
^{Verse 3}Reasoning with improper sayings,
And with words wherein is no profit?
^{Verse 4}Hast not thou moreover cast off fear,
And accomplished such words before the Lord?
^{Verse 5}Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth,
Neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.
^{Verse 6}Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee:
And thy lips shall testify against thee.^{Verse 7}What! art thou the first man that was born?
Or wert thou established before the hills?
^{Verse 8}Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord?
Or has God used thee as his counselor?
And has wisdom come only to thee?
^{Verse 9}For what knowest thou, that we know not?
Or what understandest thou, which we do not also?
^{Verse 10}Truly among us are both the old and very aged man,
More advanced in days than thy father.
^{Verse 11}Thou hast been scourged for but few of thy sins:
Thou hast spoken haughtily and extravagantly.^{Verse 12}What has thy heart dared?
Or what have thine eyes aimed at,
^{Verse 13}That thou hast vented thy rage before the Lord,
And delivered such words from thy mouth?
^{Verse 14}For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless?
Or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?
^{Verse 15}Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints;
And the heaven is not pure before him.
^{Verse 16}Alas then, abominable and unclean is man,
Drinking unrighteousness as a draft.^{Verse 17}But I will tell thee, hearken to me;
I will tell thee now what I have seen;
^{Verse 18}Things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.
^{Verse 19}To them alone the earth was given,
And no stranger came upon them.
^{Verse 20}All the life of the ungodly is spent in care,
And the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.
^{Verse 21}And his terror is in his ears:
Just when he seems to be at peace,
His overthrow will come.
^{Verse 22}Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness,
For he has been already made over to the power of the sword.
^{Verse 23}And he has been appointed to be food for vultures;
And he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass:
And a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
^{Verse 24}Distress also and anguish shall come upon him:
He shall fall as a captain in the first rank.
^{Verse 25}For he has lifted his hands against the Lord,
And he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.
^{Verse 26}And he has run against him with insolence,
On the thickness of the back of his shield.
^{Verse 27}For he has covered his face with his fat,
And made layers of fat upon his thighs.
^{Verse 28}And let him lodge in desolate cities,
And enter into houses without inhabitant:
And what they have prepared, others shall carry away.^{Verse 29}Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain:
He shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.
^{Verse 30}Neither shall he in anywise escape the darkness:
Let the wind blast his blossom,
And let his flower fall off.
^{Verse 31}Let him not think that he shall endure;
For his end shall be vanity.
^{Verse 32}His harvest shall perish before the time,
And his branch shall not flourish.
^{Verse 33}And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time,
And let him fall as the blossom of the olive.
^{Verse 34}For death is the witness of an ungodly man,
And fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.
^{Verse 35}And he shall conceive sorrows,
And his end shall be vanity,
And his belly shall bear deceit.