Job 15

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 Art thou the first man 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? what understandest thou, which is not in us?⋮

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

11 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 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 saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.⋮

16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?⋮

17 I will shew thee, hear 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 earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.⋮

20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.⋮

21 A dreadful sound 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, saying, Where 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, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:⋮

27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.⋮

28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, 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 shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.⋮

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