Job 15:1-35 NET

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: [2] "Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind? [3] Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them? [4] But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God. [5] Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty. [6] Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you. [7] "Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? [8] Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? [9] What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand? [10] The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father. [11] Are God's consolations too trivial for you, or a word spoken in gentleness to you? [12] Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, [13] when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth? [14] What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? [15] If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, [16] how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water! [17] "I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare, [18] what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors, [19] to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them. [20] All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant. [21] Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him. [22] He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword; [23] he wanders about-food for vultures-he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. [24] Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack, [25] for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty, [26] defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield! [27] Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat, [28] he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps. [29] He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land. [30] He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth. [31] Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward. [32] Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish. [33] Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms. [34] For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes. [35] They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception."