Jubilee2000 - Job - 15

15:1  Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered, and said,

15:2  Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind?

15:3  Should he dispute with useless words and with reasons that are not profitable?

15:4  Thou dost also cast off fear and undermine prayer before God.

15:5  For thy mouth has declared thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.

15:6  Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I; thine own lips shall testify against thee.

15:7  Wast thou born before Adam? Or wast thou formed before the hills?

15:8  Hast thou heard the secret of God, that thou dost detain wisdom in thee alone?

15:9  What dost thou know that we do not? [What] dost thou understand, which [is] not in us?

15:10  Among us [are] also gray hairs; there are also aged men, much elder than thy father.

15:11  [Are] the consolations of God in such small esteem with thee? Is there by chance any secret thing concerning thee?

15:12  Why does thine heart carry thee away, and why do thine eyes blink,

15:13  that thou dost reply unto God with thy spirit and bring forth such words out of thy mouth?

15:14  What [is] man that he should be clean and that he that is born of a woman should be justified?

15:15  Behold, he puts no trust in his saints, and not even the heavens are clean in his sight.

15:16  How much less the man who is abominable and filthy, who drinks iniquity like water?

15:17  Listen to me and I will show thee and declare unto thee that [which] I have seen,

15:18  that which the wise men have told us of their fathers and have not hid [it],

15:19  unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

15:20  The wicked man travails with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden from the violent.

15:21  Fearful sounds are in his ears; in peace the destroyer shall come upon him.

15:22  He will not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is always watching the sword.

15:23  He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? He knows that the day of darkness is prepared for him.

15:24  Tribulation and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

15:25  Because he extended his hand against God and strengthens himself against the Almighty,

15:26  he shall run him through in the neck, upon the thick shoulder pieces of his shields;

15:27  for he covered his face with his fatness and made collops of fat on [his] flanks;

15:28  and he dwelt in desolate cities [and] in houses which no one inhabited, which were in heaps.

15:29  He shall not become rich, nor shall his strength be established, neither shall he extend his beauty upon the earth.

15:30  He shall not escape from the darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall perish.

15:31  He shall not be established; in vanity he shall err; therefore, he shall be changed into vanity.

15:32  He shall be cut off before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

15:33  He shall shake off his sour grapes as the vine and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

15:34  For the congregation of the hypocrites shall be made desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

15:35  They conceive pain and bring forth iniquity, and their belly meditates deceit.: