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Job 15 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:1 - Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:2 - “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,
and fill his belly with the east wind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:3 - Should he argue in unprofitable talk,
or in words with which he can do no good?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:4 - But you are doing away with the fear of God[fn]
and hindering meditation before God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:5 - For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:6 - Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
your own lips testify against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:7 - “Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:8 - Have you listened in the council of God?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:9 - What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:10 - Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
older than your father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:11 - Are the comforts of God too small for you,
or the word that deals gently with you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:12 - Why does your heart carry you away,
and why do your eyes flash,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:13 - that you turn your spirit against God
and bring such words out of your mouth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:14 - What is man, that he can be pure?
Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:15 - Behold, God[fn] puts no trust in his holy ones,
and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:16 - how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
a man who drinks injustice like water!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:17 - “I will show you; hear me,
and what I have seen I will declare

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:18 - (what wise men have told,
without hiding it from their fathers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:19 - to whom alone the land was given,
and no stranger passed among them).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:20 - The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:21 - Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:22 - He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
and he is marked for the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:23 - He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:24 - distress and anguish terrify him;
they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:25 - Because he has stretched out his hand against God
and defies the Almighty,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:26 - running stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:27 - because he has covered his face with his fat
and gathered fat upon his waist

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - and has lived in desolate cities,
in houses that none should inhabit,
which were ready to become heaps of ruins;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:29 - he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
nor will his possessions spread over the earth;[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30 - he will not depart from darkness;
the flame will dry up his shoots,
and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his payment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:32 - It will be paid in full before his time,
and his branch will not be green.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:34 - For the company of the godless is barren,
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - They conceive trouble and give birth to evil,
and their womb prepares deceit.”
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Hebrew lacks of God
Hebrew he
Or nor will his produce bend down to the earth
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