Job 15:1-35 WEB

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, [2] “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind? [3] Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good? [4] Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. [5] For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. [6] Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you. [7] “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills? [8] Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? [9] What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us? [10] With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father. [11] Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you? [12] Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash, [13] that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth? [14] What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? [15] Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; [16] how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water! [17] “I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare [18] (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it; [19] to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them): [20] the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. [21] A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him. [22] He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword. [23] He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. [24] Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. [25] Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty, [26] he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers, [27] because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs. [28] He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. [29] He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth. [30] He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth. [31] Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward. [32] It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green. [33] He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree. [34] For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. [35] They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”