Job 15:1-35 ESV

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: [2] "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? [3] Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? [4] But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. [5] For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. [6] Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. [7] "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? [8] Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? [9] What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? [10] Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. [11] Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? [12] Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, [13] that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth? [14] What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? [15] Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; [16] how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water! [17] "I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare [18] (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers, [19] to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them). [20] The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless. [21] Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. [22] He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword. [23] He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand; [24] distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle. [25] Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, [26] running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; [27] because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist [28] and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins; [29] he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth; [30] he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart. [31] Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. [32] It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green. [33] He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree. [34] For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery. [35] They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."