Job 15

1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,● 2Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?● 3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?● 4Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.● 5For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.● 6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.● 7Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?● 8Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?● 9What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?● 10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.● 11Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?● 12Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,● 13That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?● 14What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?● 15Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:● 16How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!● 17I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:● 18(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;● 19Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):● 20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.● 21A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.● 22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.● 23He wandereth abroad for bread, `saying', Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.● 24Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.● 25Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;● 26He runneth upon him with a `stiff' neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;● 27Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;● 28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;● 29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.● 30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of `God's' mouth shall he go away.● 31Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.● 32It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.● 33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.● 34For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.● 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.●