AB - Job - 15

15:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

15:2  Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? And does he fill up the pain of his belly,

15:3  reasoning with improper sayings, and with words in which is no profit?

15:4  Have you not cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?

15:5  You are guilty by the words of your mouth, neither have you discerned the words of the Mighty.

15:6  Let your own mouth reprove you, and not me, and your lips shall testify against you.

15:7  What! Are you the first man that was born? Or were you established before the hills?

15:8  Or have you heard the ordinance of the Lord? Or has God used you as His counselor? Has wisdom come only to you?

15:9  For what you know, do we know not? Or what you understand, do we not also?

15:10  Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.

15:11  You have been scourged for but a few of your sins; you have spoken haughtily and extravagantly.

15:12  What has your heart dared? Or what have your eyes aimed at,

15:13  that you have vented your rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from your mouth?

15:14  For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? Or who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?

15:15  Forasmuch as He trusts not His saints, and the heaven is not pure before Him.

15:16  Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

15:17  But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen;

15:18  things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

15:19  To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.

15:20  All the life of the ungodly is spent in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.

15:21  And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

15:22  Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

15:23  And he has been appointed to be food for vultures, and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

15:24  Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.

15:25  For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

15:26  And he has run against Him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.

15:27  For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

15:28  And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

15:29  Neither shall he grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.

15:30  And he shall by no means escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

15:31  Let him not think that he shall endure, for his end shall be vanity.

15:32  His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.

15:33  And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.

15:34  For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

15:35  And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.