Job 15

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

Job 15:2 Does a wise person answer with empty counsel or fill himself with the hot east wind?

Job 15:3 Should he argue with useless talk or with words that serve no purpose?

Job 15:4 But you even frustrate the fear of God and hinder meditation before him.

Job 15:5 Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.

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

Job 15:7 Were you the first of Adam ever born, or were you brought forth before the hills?

Job 15:8 Do you listen in on the council of God, or have a monopoly on wisdom?

Job 15:9 What do you know that we don’t? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Job 15:10 Both the gray-haired and the elderly are with us — older than your father.

Job 15:11 Are God’s comforts not enough for you, or the words that deal gently with you?

Job 15:12 Why has your heart misled you, and why do your eyes flash

Job 15:13 as you turn your breath against God and allow such words to leave your mouth?

Job 15:14 What is a mere mortal, that he should be pure, or one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 15:15 If God puts no trust in his holy ones and the sky is not pure in his sight,

Job 15:16 how much less one who is revolting and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Job 15:17 Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

Job 15:18 what the wise have declared and not concealed, that came from their ancestors,

Job 15:19 to whom alone the land was given when no stranger passed among them.

Job 15:20 A wicked person writhes in pain all his days, throughout the number of years reserved for the ruthless.

Job 15:21 Dreadful sounds fill his ears; when he is at peace, a robber attacks him.

Job 15:22 He doesn’t believe he will return from darkness; he is destined for the sword.

Job 15:23 He wanders about for food, asking, “Where is it?” He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 15:24 Trouble and distress terrify him, overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle.

Job 15:25 For he has sent out his hand against God and has arrogantly opposed the Almighty.

Job 15:26 He rushes headlong at him with his thick, studded shields.

Job 15:27 Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with it,

Job 15:28 he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble.

Job 15:29 He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His crops will not spread over the ground.

Job 15:30 He will not escape from the darkness; flames will burn up his shoots, and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

Job 15:31 Let him not put trust in worthless things, being led astray, because what he gets in exchange will prove useless.

Job 15:32 It will be accomplished before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

Job 15:33 He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

Job 15:34 Because the company of the godless will have no children, and fire will consume the tents of those who offer bribes.

Job 15:35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb prepares deception.

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