1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, NHEB — Job 15:1
2 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind? NHEB — Job 15:2
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good? NHEB — Job 15:3
4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. NHEB — Job 15:4
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. NHEB — Job 15:5
6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you. NHEB — Job 15:6
7 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? NHEB — Job 15:7
8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? NHEB — Job 15:8
9 What do you know, that we do not know? What do you understand, which is not in us? NHEB — Job 15:9
10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father. NHEB — Job 15:10
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you? NHEB — Job 15:11
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash, NHEB — Job 15:12
13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth? NHEB — Job 15:13
14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? NHEB — Job 15:14
15 Look, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; NHEB — Job 15:15
16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water. NHEB — Job 15:16
17 "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare: NHEB — Job 15:17
18 (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it; NHEB — Job 15:18
19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them): NHEB — Job 15:19
20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. NHEB — Job 15:20
21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him. NHEB — Job 15:21
22 He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword. NHEB — Job 15:22
23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. NHEB — Job 15:23
24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. NHEB — Job 15:24
25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against Shaddai; NHEB — Job 15:25
26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers; NHEB — Job 15:26
27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs. NHEB — Job 15:27
28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. NHEB — Job 15:28
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth. NHEB — Job 15:29
30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away. NHEB — Job 15:30
31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward. NHEB — Job 15:31
32 It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green. NHEB — Job 15:32
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree. NHEB — Job 15:33
34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. NHEB — Job 15:34
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit." NHEB — Job 15:35