[[Job 14|<< Job 14]] | [[Job|Job]] | [[Job 16|Job 16 >>]] ### Job 15 1 THEN answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, ^1 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? ^2 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? ^3 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. ^4 5 For thy mouth utters thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. ^5 6 Thine own mouth comdemns thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. ^6 7 _Art_ thou the first man _that_ was born? or wast thou made before the hills? ^7 8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? ^8 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? _what_ understandest thou, which _is_ not in us? ^9 10 With us _are_ both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. ^10 11 _Are_ the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? ^11 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, ^12 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest _such_ words go out of thy mouth? ^13 14 What _is_ man, that he should be clean? and _he_ _which_ _is_ born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ^14 15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. ^15 16 How much more abominable and filthy _is_ man, which drinks iniquity like water? ^16 17 I will show thee, hear me; and that _which_ I have seen I will declare; ^17 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid _it:_ ^18 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. ^19 20 The wicked man travails with pain all _his_ days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. ^20 21 A dreadful sound _is_ in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. ^21 22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. ^22 23 He wanders abroad for bread, _saying_, Where _is_ _it?_ he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ^23 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. ^24 25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty. ^25 26 He runs upon him, _even_ on _his_ neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: ^26 27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes abundance of fat on _his_ flanks. ^27 28 And he dwells in desolate cities, _and_ in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps. ^28 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. ^29 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. ^30 31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. ^31 32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ^32 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. ^33 34 For the congregation of hypocrites _shall_ _be_ desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. ^34 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit. ^35