Job - Chapter 15 | English Standard Version

  • 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
  • 2. "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the 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 God and hindering meditation before God.
  • 5. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
  • 6. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
  • 7. "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
  • 8. Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
  • 9. What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
  • 10. Both 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 spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?
  • 14. What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
  • 15. Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
  • 16. how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks 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 from their fathers,
  • 19. to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
  • 20. The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
  • 21. Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity 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 wanders 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 prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
  • 25. Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,
  • 26. running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
  • 27. because he has covered 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;
  • 30. he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
  • 31. Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
  • 32. It will be paid in full before 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 the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
  • 35. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."
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