AFV2020 - Job - 15

15:1  And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

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

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

15:4  Yea, you do away with fear, and hinder prayer before God.

15:5  For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

15:6  Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you.

15:7  Were you the first man born? Or were you made before the hills?

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

15:9  What do you know that we do not know, or what do you understand that we do not?

15:10  With us are both the gray-headed and the aged, mightier than your father as to days.

15:11  Are the consolations of God too small with you, even a word dealing gently with you?

15:12  Why does your heart carry you away? And what do your eyes wink at,

15:13  That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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

15:15  Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

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

15:17  I will show you; hear me; and what I have seen I will declare,

15:18  That which wise men have told, and have not hidden from their fathers;

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

15:20  The wicked man labors in pain all his days, and numbered are the years stored up for the ruthless.

15:21  A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; while at peace the destroyer shall come upon him.

15:22  He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness, but he is destined for the sword.

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

15:24  Trouble and anguish shall terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the battle;

15:25  Because he stretches out his hand against God, and sets himself against the Almighty.

15:26  He runs at Him, with a stiff neck, with the thick layers of his shields,

15:27  Because he has covered his face with fatness; he has put fat on his loins.

15:28  And he lives in desolate cities, in houses where none are living, which are ready to become heaps.

15:29  He shall not be rich, nor shall his possessions continue, nor shall he spread out his possessions over the earth.

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

15:31  Let not him who is deceived trust in vanity; for vanity shall be his reward.

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

15:33  He shall shake off its unripe grape as the vine; and shall cast off his flower like the olive.

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

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