Job 15

1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, ‡ Job 2:11Job 42:7Job 22:1Job 4:1Job 42:9 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? ¹ ‡ Job 6:26Job 8:2Hos 12:1Jas 3:13Job 11:2-3Job 13:2 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? ‡ Col 4:6Mat 12:36-371Ti 6:4-5Job 13:4-5Job 16:2-3Job 26:1-3Mal 3:13-15 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. ^{2 3} ‡ Rom 3:311Ch 10:13-14Amo 6:10Gal 2:21Hos 7:14Job 27:10Job 4:5-6Job 5:8 +55 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. ⁴ ‡ Jas 1:26Jer 9:3-5Jas 3:5-8Jer 9:8Luk 6:45Psa 50:19-20Psa 52:2-4Job 5:13 +56 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. ‡ Luk 19:22Job 9:20Mat 12:37Job 33:8-12Job 34:5-9Job 35:2-3Job 40:8Job 42:3 +27 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? ‡ Psa 90:2Job 12:12Job 38:4-41Pro 8:22-25Gen 4:1Job 15:10 8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? ‡ Rom 11:34Jer 23:181Co 2:161Co 2:9-11Amo 3:7Deu 29:29Jhn 15:15Job 11:6 +99 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? ‡ Job 13:22Co 11:52Co 10:72Co 11:21-30Job 12:3Job 26:3-4 10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. ‡ Job 32:6-7Job 12:12Job 8:8-10Deu 32:7Job 12:20Pro 16:31 11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? ‡ 2Co 1:3-5Job 13:21Ki 22:242Co 7:6Job 11:13-19Job 15:8Job 36:16Job 5:8-26 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, ‡ Mrk 7:21-22Psa 35:19Act 5:3-4Act 8:22Jas 1:14-15Job 11:13Job 17:2Pro 6:13 +113 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? ‡ Jas 3:2-6Job 15:25-27Jas 1:26Job 10:3Job 12:6Job 9:4Mal 3:13Psa 34:13 +114 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ‡ Ecc 7:20Job 14:4Pro 20:9Rom 7:18Job 25:4-61Jn 1:8-101Ki 8:46Psa 14:3 +715 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. ‡ Job 25:5Job 4:18Isa 6:2-5Job 5:1 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? ‡ Job 34:7Pro 19:28Psa 53:3Rom 3:9-19Tit 3:3Job 20:12Job 4:19Job 42:6 +2

17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; ‡ Job 13:5-6Job 33:1Job 34:2Job 36:2Job 5:27 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: ‡ Job 8:8Isa 38:19Job 15:10Psa 71:18Psa 78:3-6 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. ‡ Jol 3:17Deu 32:8Gen 10:25Gen 10:32 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. ‡ Jas 5:1-6Job 27:13Job 24:1Luk 12:19-21Ecc 9:3Psa 90:12Psa 90:3-4Rom 8:22 21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. ⁵ ‡ Job 18:111Th 5:3Lev 26:361Co 10:10Job 1:13-19Job 20:22-25Job 20:5-7Job 27:20 +822 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. ‡ Job 20:24-252Ki 6:33Isa 8:21-22Job 19:29Job 27:14Job 6:11Job 9:16Mat 27:5 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ‡ Job 18:12Psa 109:10Psa 59:15Amo 5:20Ecc 11:8Gen 4:12Heb 10:27Heb 11:37-38 +724 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. ‡ Pro 24:34Pro 6:11Isa 13:3Job 6:2-4Mat 26:37-38Pro 1:27Psa 119:143Rom 2:9 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. ‡ Dan 5:23Job 9:4Psa 52:7Psa 73:91Sa 6:6Job 36:9Mal 3:13Psa 73:11 +1226 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: ‡ 2Ch 32:13-172Ch 28:22Gen 49:8Job 16:12Psa 18:40 27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks. ‡ Psa 17:10Isa 6:10Jer 5:28Psa 73:7Deu 32:15Job 17:10Psa 78:31 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. ‡ Job 3:14Jer 51:37Isa 5:8-10Jer 26:18Jer 9:11Job 18:15Mic 3:12Mic 7:18 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. ‡ Job 27:16-17Jas 1:11Jas 5:1-3Job 20:22-28Job 22:15-20Luk 12:19-21Luk 16:19-22Luk 16:2 +130 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. ‡ Job 4:9Job 15:22Job 18:5-6Job 20:26Mat 25:412Pe 2:172Th 1:8-9Ezk 15:4-7 +1231 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. ‡ Isa 59:4Gal 6:3Gal 6:7-8Hos 8:7Psa 62:10Eph 5:6Isa 44:20Job 12:16 +432 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ⁶ ‡ Ecc 7:17Psa 55:23Hos 9:16Job 22:16Ezk 17:8-10Hos 14:5-7Isa 27:11Job 14:7-9 +433 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. ‡ Deu 28:39-40Isa 33:9Rev 6:13 34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. ‡ Job 8:13Job 27:8Job 8:22Mic 7:21Sa 12:31Sa 8:3Amo 5:11-12Isa 33:14-15 +735 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. ⁷ ‡ Psa 7:14Hos 10:13Isa 59:4-5Jas 1:15Gal 6:7-8