Job - Chapter 15 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
  • 2. Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
  • 3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
  • 4. Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
  • 5. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
  • 6. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
  • 7. {cf15I Art} thou the first man {cf15I that} was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
  • 8. Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
  • 9. What knowest thou, that we know not? {cf15I what} understandest thou, which {cf15I is} not in us?
  • 10. With us {cf15I are} both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
  • 11. {cf15I Are} the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
  • 12. Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
  • 13. That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest {cf15I such} words go out of thy mouth?
  • 14. What {cf15I is} man, that he should be clean? and {cf15I he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
  • 15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
  • 16. How much more abominable and filthy {cf15I is} man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
  • 17. I will shew thee, hear me; and that {cf15I which} I have seen I will declare;
  • 18. Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid {cf15I it}:
  • 19. Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
  • 20. The wicked man travaileth with pain all {cf15I his} days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
  • 21. A dreadful sound {cf15I is} in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
  • 22. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
  • 23. He wandereth abroad for bread, {cf15I saying}, Where {cf15I is it}? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
  • 24. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
  • 25. For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
  • 26. He runneth upon him, {cf15I even} on {cf15I his} neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
  • 27. Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on {cf15I his} flanks.
  • 28. And he dwelleth in desolate cities, {cf15I and} in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
  • 29. He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
  • 30. He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
  • 31. Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
  • 32. It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
  • 33. He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
  • 34. For the congregation of hypocrites {cf15I shall be} desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
  • 35. They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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