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Job 15 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Eliphaz Accuses Job of Folly
Eliphaz Accuses Job of Folly

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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 empty knowledge,
And fill himself with the east wind?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:3 - Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
Or by speeches with which he can do no good?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:4 - Yes, you cast off fear,
And restrain prayer before God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:5

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 Box Job 15:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:8 - Have you heard the counsel of God?
Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:11 - Are the consolations of God too small for you,
And the word spoken gently[fn] 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 what do your eyes wink at,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:13 - That you turn your spirit against God,
And let such words go out of your mouth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:14

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:15 - If God puts no trust in His saints,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:16 - How much less man, who is abominable and filthy,
Who drinks iniquity like water!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:17 - “I will tell you, hear me;
What I have seen I will declare,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:18 - What wise men have told,
Not hiding anything received from their fathers,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:19 - To whom alone the land was given,
And no alien passed among them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:20 - The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:21

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:22 - He does not believe that he will return from darkness,
For a sword is waiting for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:23

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:24 - Trouble and anguish make him afraid;
They overpower him, like a king ready for battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:25 - For he stretches out his hand against God,
And acts defiantly against the Almighty,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:26 - Running stubbornly against Him
With his strong, embossed shield.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:27 - “Though he has covered his face with his fatness,
And made his waist heavy with fat,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:28 - He dwells in desolate cities,
In houses which no one inhabits,
Which are destined to become ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:29 - He will not be rich,
Nor will his wealth continue,
Nor will his possessions overspread the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30 - He will not depart from darkness;
The flame will dry out his branches,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:31 - Let him not trust in futile things, deceiving himself,
For futility will be his reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:32 - It will be accomplished before his time,
And his branch will not be green.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:33

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:34 - For the company of hypocrites will be barren,
And fire will consume the tents of bribery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:35 - They conceive trouble and bring forth futility;
Their womb prepares deceit.”
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Septuagint reads a secret thing.
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New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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Job Chapter 15 — Additional Translations:

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