Job 15 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much

Job 15:1

Job 15:1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Job 15:2

Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge,

And fill himself with the east wind?

Job 15:3

Should he reason with unprofitable talk,

Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Job 15:4

Yea, thou doest away with fear,

And hinderest devotion before God.

Job 15:5

For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,

And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Job 15:6

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;

Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Job 15:7

Art thou the first man that was born?

Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

Job 15:8

Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God?

And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

Job 15:9

What knowest thou, that we know not?

What understandest thou, which is not in us?

Job 15:10

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,

Much elder than thy father.

Job 15:11

Are the consolations of God too small for thee,

Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

Job 15:12

Why doth thy heart carry thee away?

And why do thine eyes flash,

Job 15:13

That against God thou turnest thy spirit,

And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

Job 15:14

What is man, that he should be clean?

And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 15:15

Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones;

Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Job 15:16

How much less one that is abominable and corrupt,

A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life

Job 15:17

I will show thee, hear thou me;

And that which I have seen I will declare

Job 15:18

(Which wise men have told

From their fathers, and have not hid it;

Job 15:19

Unto whom alone the land was given,

And no stranger passed among them):

Job 15:20

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,

Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Job 15:21

A sound of terrors is in his ears;

In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Job 15:22

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,

And he is waited for of the sword.

Job 15:23

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?

He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Job 15:24

Distress and anguish make him afraid;

They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Job 15:25

Because he hath stretched out his hand against God,

And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

Job 15:26

He runneth upon him with a stiff neck,

With the thick bosses of his bucklers;

Job 15:27

Because he hath covered his face with his fatness,

And gathered fat upon his loins;

Job 15:28

And he hath dwelt in desolate cities,

In houses which no man inhabited,

Which were ready to become heaps;

Job 15:29

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,

Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

Job 15:30

He shall not depart out of darkness;

The flame shall dry up his branches,

And by the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.

Job 15:31

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself;

For vanity shall be his recompense.

Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time,

And his branch shall not be green.

Job 15:33

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,

And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

Job 15:34

For the company of the godless shall be barren,

And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Job 15:35

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity,

And their heart prepareth deceit.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 15 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much

What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life

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