Job 15 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much

Job 15:1

Job 15:1Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:

Job 15:2

Job 15:2"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself 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, and hindering meditation before God.

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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.

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Job 15:7"Are you the first man that 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?

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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 consolations 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 let such words go out of your mouth?

Job 15:14

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

Job 15:15

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

Job 15:16

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

What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life

Job 15:17

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

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Job 15:18(what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,

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

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

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

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

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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 prepared for battle.

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Job 15:25Because he has stretched forth his hand against God, and bids defiance to the Almighty,

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

Job 15:27

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

Job 15:28

Job 15:28and has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps of ruins;

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Job 15:29he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will he strike root in the earth;

Job 15:30

Job 15:30he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind.

Job 15:31

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

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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 mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."

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Job 15 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much

What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life

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