Job 15

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, ‡ Job 2:11Job 42:7Job 22:1Job 4:1Job 42:9

2 “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, ‡ Job 6:26Job 8:2Hos 12:1Jas 3:13Job 11:2-3Job 13:2

and fill himself with the east wind?

3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, ‡ Col 4:6Mat 12:36-371Ti 6:4-5Job 13:4-5Job 16:2-3Job 26:1-3Mal 3:13-15

or with speeches with which he can do no good?

4 Yes, you do away with fear, ‡ Rom 3:311Ch 10:13-14Amo 6:10Gal 2:21Hos 7:14Job 27:10Job 4:5-6Job 5:8 +5

and hinder devotion before God.

5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, ‡ Jas 1:26Jer 9:3-5Jas 3:5-8Jer 9:8Luk 6:45Psa 50:19-20Psa 52:2-4Job 5:13 +5

and you choose the language of the crafty.

6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. ‡ Luk 19:22Job 9:20Mat 12:37Job 33:8-12Job 34:5-9Job 35:2-3Job 40:8Job 42:3 +2

Yes, your own lips testify against you.

7 “Are you the first man who was born? ‡ Psa 90:2Job 12:12Job 38:4-41Pro 8:22-25Gen 4:1Job 15:10

Or were you brought out before the hills?

8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? ‡ Rom 11:34Jer 23:181Co 2:161Co 2:9-11Amo 3:7Deu 29:29Jhn 15:15Job 11:6 +9

Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

9 What do you know that we don’t know? ‡ Job 13:22Co 11:52Co 10:72Co 11:21-30Job 12:3Job 26:3-4

What do you understand which is not in us?

10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, ‡ Job 32:6-7Job 12:12Job 8:8-10Deu 32:7Job 12:20Pro 16:31

much older than your father.

11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, ‡ 2Co 1:3-5Job 13:21Ki 22:242Co 7:6Job 11:13-19Job 15:8Job 36:16Job 5:8-26

even the word that is gentle toward you?

12 Why does your heart carry you away? ‡ Mrk 7:21-22Psa 35:19Act 5:3-4Act 8:22Jas 1:14-15Job 11:13Job 17:2Pro 6:13 +1

Why do your eyes flash,

13 that you turn your spirit against God, ‡ Jas 3:2-6Job 15:25-27Jas 1:26Job 10:3Job 12:6Job 9:4Mal 3:13Psa 34:13 +1

and let such words go out of your mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be clean? ‡ Ecc 7:20Job 14:4Pro 20:9Rom 7:18Job 25:4-61Jn 1:8-101Ki 8:46Psa 14:3 +7

What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. ‡ Job 25:5Job 4:18Isa 6:2-5Job 5:1

Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, ‡ Job 34:7Pro 19:28Psa 53:3Rom 3:9-19Tit 3:3Job 20:12Job 4:19Job 42:6 +2

a man who drinks iniquity like water!

17 “I will show you, listen to me; ‡ Job 13:5-6Job 33:1Job 34:2Job 36:2Job 5:27

that which I have seen I will declare

18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, ‡ Job 8:8Isa 38:19Job 15:10Psa 71:18Psa 78:3-6

and have not hidden it;

19 to whom alone the land was given, ‡ Jol 3:17Deu 32:8Gen 10:25Gen 10:32

and no stranger passed among them):

20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, ‡ Jas 5:1-6Job 27:13Job 24:1Luk 12:19-21Ecc 9:3Psa 90:12Psa 90:3-4Rom 8:22

even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. ‡ Job 18:111Th 5:3Lev 26:361Co 10:10Job 1:13-19Job 20:22-25Job 20:5-7Job 27:20 +8

In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

22 He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. ‡ Job 20:24-252Ki 6:33Isa 8:21-22Job 19:29Job 27:14Job 6:11Job 9:16Mat 27:5

He is waited for by the sword.

23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ ‡ Job 18:12Psa 109:10Psa 59:15Amo 5:20Ecc 11:8Gen 4:12Heb 10:27Heb 11:37-38 +7

He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. ‡ Pro 24:34Pro 6:11Isa 13:3Job 6:2-4Mat 26:37-38Pro 1:27Psa 119:143Rom 2:9

They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, ‡ Dan 5:23Job 9:4Psa 52:7Psa 73:91Sa 6:6Job 36:9Mal 3:13Psa 73:11 +12

and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, ‡ 2Ch 32:13-172Ch 28:22Gen 49:8Job 16:12Psa 18:40

with the thick shields of his bucklers,

27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, ‡ Psa 17:10Isa 6:10Jer 5:28Psa 73:7Deu 32:15Job 17:10Psa 78:31

and gathered fat on his thighs.

28 He has lived in desolate cities, ‡ Job 3:14Jer 51:37Isa 5:8-10Jer 26:18Jer 9:11Job 18:15Mic 3:12Mic 7:18

in houses which no one inhabited,

which were ready to become heaps.

29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, ‡ Job 27:16-17Jas 1:11Jas 5:1-3Job 20:22-28Job 22:15-20Luk 12:19-21Luk 16:19-22Luk 16:2 +1

neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.

30 He will not depart out of darkness. ‡ Job 4:9Job 15:22Job 18:5-6Job 20:26Mat 25:412Pe 2:172Th 1:8-9Ezk 15:4-7 +12

The flame will dry up his branches.

He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, ‡ Isa 59:4Gal 6:3Gal 6:7-8Hos 8:7Psa 62:10Eph 5:6Isa 44:20Job 12:16 +4

for emptiness will be his reward.

32 It will be accomplished before his time. ‡ Ecc 7:17Psa 55:23Hos 9:16Job 22:16Ezk 17:8-10Hos 14:5-7Isa 27:11Job 14:7-9 +4

His branch will not be green.

33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, ‡ Deu 28:39-40Isa 33:9Rev 6:13

and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.

34 For the company of the godless will be barren, ‡ Job 8:13Job 27:8Job 8:22Mic 7:21Sa 12:31Sa 8:3Amo 5:11-12Isa 33:14-15 +7

and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. ‡ Psa 7:14Hos 10:13Isa 59:4-5Jas 1:15Gal 6:7-8

Their heart prepares deceit.”