Job 15 :: New International Version (NIV)

Eliphaz

Job 15:1

Job 15:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 15:2

Job 15:2“Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?

Job 15:3

Job 15:3Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?

Job 15:4

Job 15:4But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.

Job 15:5

Job 15:5Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.

Job 15:6

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

Job 15:7

Job 15:7“Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

Job 15:8

Job 15:8Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?

Job 15:9

Job 15:9What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?

Job 15:10

Job 15:10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

Job 15:11

Job 15:11Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?

Job 15:12

Job 15:12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

Job 15:13

Job 15:13so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?

Job 15:14

Job 15:14“What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

Job 15:15

Job 15:15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

Job 15:16

Job 15:16how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!

Job 15:17

Job 15:17“Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,

Job 15:18

Job 15:18what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors

Job 15:19

Job 15:19(to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):

Job 15:20

Job 15:20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.

Job 15:21

Job 15:21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.

Job 15:22

Job 15:22He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.

Job 15:23

Job 15:23He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 15:24

Job 15:24Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,

Job 15:25

Job 15:25because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

Job 15:26

Job 15:26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.

Job 15:27

Job 15:27“Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,

Job 15:28

Job 15:28he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.

Job 15:29

Job 15:29He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

Job 15:30

Job 15:30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

Job 15:31

Job 15:31Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.

Job 15:32

Job 15:32Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.

Job 15:33

Job 15:33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.

Job 15:34

Job 15:34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

Job 15:35

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

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