Job - Chapter 15 - King James 2000
- Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
- Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
- Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
- For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify against you.
- Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
- Have you heard the council of God? and do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
- With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much older than your father.
- Are the consolations of God too small for you? on the word that deals gently with you?
- Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
- That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
- What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
- How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
- I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
- Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
- Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.
- The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the oppressor.
- A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.
- He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
- Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.
- For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
- He runs stubbornly against him, with his heavily embossed shield.
- Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes heavy fat on his waist.
- And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
- He shall not be rich, neither shall his wealth continue, neither shall he overspread the earth with it.
- 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.
- Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for futility shall be his reward.
- It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
- He shall shake off his unripe grapes like the vine, and shall cast off his blossom like the olive.
- For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
- They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their heart prepares deceit.