JOB 15

1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,⋮

2 Should a wise man make answer with 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 doest away with fear, and restrainest devotion before God.⋮

5 For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, 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 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou brought forth before the hills?⋮

8 Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?⋮

9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?⋮

10 With us are both the grayheaded and the very aged men, much elder than thy father.⋮

11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?⋮

12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?⋮

13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.⋮

14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?⋮

15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.⋮

16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, a man that drinketh iniquity like water!⋮

17 I will shew thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare:⋮

18 (Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;⋮

19 Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:)⋮

20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.⋮

21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler 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, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:⋮

24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle:⋮

25 Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;⋮

26 He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers:⋮

27 Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his flanks;⋮

28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.⋮

29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to 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 him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself: 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 company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.⋮

35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.⋮