Job 15:1-35 MEV

[1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: [2] "Should a wise man reply with empty knowledge and fill his lungs with the east wind? [3] Should he reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches with which he can do no good? [4] Yes, you cast off reverence and hinder prayer before God. [5] For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue 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 made before the hills? [8] Have you heard the counsel of God? And do you restrict wisdom to yourself? [9] What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us? [10] Both the gray-haired and very aged are among us- much older than your father. [11] Are the consolations of God too small for you? Or the word spoken gently to you? [12] Why does your heart carry you away? And what do your eyes wink at, [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 pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? [15] Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in His sight. [16] How much more abhorred and corrupt is man, who drinks iniquity like water! [17] "I will tell you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare, [18] what wise men have told, not hiding anything received from their fathers, [19] to whom alone the land was given, and no foreigner passed among them: [20] The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and numbered are the years stored up for the oppressor. [21] A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. [22] He does not believe that he will return from darkness, and a sword awaits him. [23] He wanders about for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. [24] Trouble and anguish will make him afraid; they will prevail against him as a king ready to the battle. [25] For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty. [26] He rushes upon Him, even on His neck, with his thick embossed shield. [27] "He has covered his face with his fatness and gathered fat upon his waist. [28] He dwells in desolate cities and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps. [29] He will not be rich, nor will his wealth continue, nor will his possessions spread over the earth. [30] He will not depart out of darkness; the flame will dry out his branches, and by the breath of His mouth he will go away. [31] Let him who is deceived not trust in futility, for futility will be his reward. [32] It will be accomplished before his time, and his branch will not be green. [33] He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and will cast off his blossom like the olive. [34] For the company of hypocrites will be desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. [35] They conceive mischief, and give birth to futility; their womb prepares deceit."