Job 15 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Eliphaz Accuses Job of Folly

Job 15:1

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

Job 15:2

Job 15:2“Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge,
And fill himself with the east wind?

Job 15:3

Job 15:3Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
Or by speeches with which he can do no good?

Job 15:4

Job 15:4Yes, you cast off fear,
And restrain prayer 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;
Yes, your own lips testify against you.

Job 15:7

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

Job 15:8

Job 15:8Have you heard the counsel of God?
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 in us?

Job 15:10

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

Job 15:11

Job 15:11Are the consolations of God too small for you,
And the word spoken gently[fn] with you?

Job 15:12

Job 15:12Why does your heart carry you away,
And what do your eyes wink at,

Job 15:13

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

Job 15:14

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

Job 15:15

Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His saints,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight,

Job 15:16

Job 15:16How much less man, who is abominable and filthy,
Who drinks iniquity like water!

Job 15:17

Job 15:17“I will tell you, hear me;
What I have seen I will declare,

Job 15:18

Job 15:18What wise men have told,
Not hiding anything received from their fathers,

Job 15:19

Job 15:19To whom alone the land was given,
And no alien passed among them:

Job 15:20

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

Job 15:21

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

Job 15:22

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

Job 15:23

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

Job 15:24

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

Job 15:25

Job 15:25For he stretches out his hand against God,
And acts defiantly against the Almighty,

Job 15:26

Job 15:26Running stubbornly against Him
With his strong, embossed shield.

Job 15:27

Job 15:27“Though he has covered his face with his fatness,
And made his waist heavy with fat,

Job 15:28

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

Job 15:29

Job 15:29He will not be rich,
Nor will his wealth continue,
Nor will his possessions overspread the earth.

Job 15:30

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

Job 15:31

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

Job 15:32

Job 15:32It will be accomplished before his time,
And his branch will not be green.

Job 15:33

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

Job 15:34

Job 15:34For the company of hypocrites will be barren,
And fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Job 15:35

Job 15:35They conceive trouble and bring forth futility;
Their womb prepares deceit.”

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NKJV Footnotes

(15:11)

Septuagint reads a secret thing.

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