UKJV - Job - 15

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

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

15:3  Should he reason with useless talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

15:4  Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

15:5  For your mouth utters your iniquity, 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  Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?

15:8  Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?

15:9  What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?

15:10  With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than your father.

15:11  Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?

15:12  Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes overlook,

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 he which is 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, which drinks iniquity like water?

15:17  I will show you, hear 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  Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

15:20  The wicked man labors with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

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

15:22  He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of 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  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

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

15:26  He runs upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

15:27  Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes fatness on his flanks.

15:28  And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

15:29  He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

15:30  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.

15:31  Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

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.

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

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