Job 15 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God

Job 15:1

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

Job 15:2

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

Job 15:3

Job 15:3Should he argue in unprofitable talk,
or in words with which he can do no good?

Job 15:4

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

Job 15:5

Job 15:5For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

Job 15:6

Job 15:6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
your own lips testify against you.

Job 15:7

Job 15:7“Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?

Job 15:8

Job 15:8Have you listened in the council of God?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Job 15:9

Job 15:9What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?

Job 15:10

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

Job 15:11

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

Job 15:12

Job 15:12Why does your heart carry you away,
and why do your eyes flash,

Job 15:13

Job 15:13that you turn your spirit against God
and bring such words out of your mouth?

Job 15:14

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

Job 15:15

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

Job 15:16

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

Job 15:17

Job 15:17“I will show you; hear me,
and what I have seen I will declare

Job 15:18

Job 15:18(what wise men have told,
without hiding it from their fathers,

Job 15:19

Job 15:19to whom alone the land was given,
and no stranger passed among them).

Job 15:20

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

Job 15:21

Job 15:21Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.

Job 15:22

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

Job 15:23

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

Job 15:24

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

Job 15:25

Job 15:25Because he has stretched out his hand against God
and defies the Almighty,

Job 15:26

Job 15:26running stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;

Job 15:27

Job 15:27because he has covered his face with his fat
and gathered fat upon his waist

Job 15:28

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

Job 15:29

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

Job 15:30

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

Job 15:31

Job 15:31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his payment.

Job 15:32

Job 15:32It will be paid in full before his time,
and his branch will not be green.

Job 15:33

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

Job 15:34

Job 15:34For the company of the godless is barren,
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

Job 15:35

Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil,
and their womb prepares deceit.”

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ESV Footnotes

(15:4)

Hebrew lacks of God

(15:15)

Hebrew he

(15:29)

Or nor will his produce bend down to the earth

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