ACV - Job - 15

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

15:2  Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

15:3  Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

15:4  Yea, thou do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

15:5  For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty.

15:6  Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I. Yes, thine own lips testify against thee.

15:7  Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills?

15:8  Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?

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

15:10  With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.

15:11  Are the consolations of God too small for thee, even the word that is gentle toward thee?

15:12  Why does thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

15:13  that against God thou turn thy spirit, and let words go out of thy mouth?

15:14  What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15:15  Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

15:16  How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

15:17  I will show thee. Hear thou me, and that which I have seen I will declare,

15:18  which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it,

15:19  to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:

15:20  The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

15:21  A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

15:22  He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.

15:23  He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

15:24  Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.

15:25  Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.

15:26  He runs upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers,

15:27  because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins.

15:28  And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

15:29  He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

15:30  He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of God's mouth he shall go away.

15:31  Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense.

15:32  It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

15:33  He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

15:34  For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

15:35  They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.