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 wherewith he can ![]() |
15:4 | ![]() |
15:5 | For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. |
15:6 | Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. |
15:7 | ![]() |
15:8 | Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? |
15:9 | What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us? |
15:10 | With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. |
15:11 | [Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? |
15:12 | Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what ![]() |
15:13 | That thou turnest thy ![]() |
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 putteth no ![]() |
15:16 | How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like ![]() |
15:17 | I will show thee, 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 | Unto whom alone the ![]() |
15:20 | The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] ![]() |
15:21 | A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. |
15:22 | He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the ![]() |
15:23 | He wandereth abroad for ![]() ![]() |
15:24 | Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a ![]() |
15:25 | For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. |
15:26 | He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: |
15:27 | Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks. |
15:28 | And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in ![]() |
15:29 | He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the ![]() |
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 ![]() |
15:32 | It shall be accomplished before his ![]() |
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 prepareth deceit. |