Job Chapter 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 unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?

15 : 4 Yes, 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 comdemns you, and not I: yes, 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 gray headed 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 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 he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15 : 15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, 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 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

15 : 20 The wicked man travails 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 on 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 on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:

15 : 27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat 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 on 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 recompense.

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.