Job 15 — JPSTN
15Verse 1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:Verse 2Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?Verse 3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?Verse 4Yea, thou doest away with fear, and impairest devotion before God.Verse 5For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.Verse 6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee.Verse 7Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?Verse 8Dost thou hearken in the council of God? And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?Verse 9What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?Verse 10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.Verse 11Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?Verse 12Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?Verse 13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.Verse 14What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?Verse 15Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.Verse 16How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!Verse 17I will tell thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare —Verse 18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;Verse 19Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.Verse 20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.Verse 21A sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.Verse 22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.Verse 23He wandereth abroad for bread: 'Where is it?' He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.Verse 24Distress and anguish overwhelm him; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.Verse 25Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;Verse 26He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.Verse 27Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins;Verse 28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps.Verse 29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth.Verse 30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of His mouth shall he go away.Verse 31Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense.Verse 32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be leafy.Verse 33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.Verse 34For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.Verse 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.