Job 15:1-35 KJ21

[1] Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said: [2] "Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? [3] Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? [4] Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. [5] For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. [6] Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee. [7] "Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou made before the hills? [8] Hast thou heard the secret of God? And dost thou withhold wisdom for thyself? [9] What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? [10] With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. [11] Are the consolations of God small with thee? Is there any secret thing with thee? [12] Why doth thine heart carry thee away, and what do thine eyes wink at, [13] that thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? [14] What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? [15] Behold, He putteth no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight. [16] How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water? [17] "I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare, [18] what wise men have told from their fathers and have not hid it, [19] unto whom alone the earth was given and no stranger passed among them: [20] The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. [21] A dreadful sound is in his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. [22] He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword. [23] He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. [24] Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle: [25] for he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty; [26] he runneth upon Him, even on His neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers. [27] Because he covereth his face with his fatness and maketh dollops of fat on his flanks, [28] and he dwelleth in desolate cities and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps, [29] he shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue; neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. [30] He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of His mouth shall he go away. [31] Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity, for vanity shall be his recompense. [32] It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. [33] He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. [34] For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. [35] They conceive evil and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit."