The Book of Job

15: 1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

 ^15:2Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge,

 And fill himself with the east wind?

 ^15:3Should he reason with unprofitable talk,

 Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

 ^15:4Yea, thou doest away with fear,

 And hinderest devotion before God.

 ^15:5For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,

 And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

 ^15:6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;

 Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
 
 

 ^15:7Art thou the first man that was born?

 Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

 ^15:8Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God?

 And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

 ^15:9What knowest thou, that we know not?

 What understandest thou, which is not in us?

 ^15:10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,

 Much elder than thy father.

 ^15:11Are the consolations of God too small for thee,

 Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

 ^15:12Why doth thy heart carry thee away?

 And why do thine eyes flash,

 ^15:13That against God thou turnest thy spirit,

 And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

 ^15:14What is man, that he should be clean?

 And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

 ^15:15Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones;

 Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

 ^15:16How much less one that is abominable and corrupt,

 A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
 
 

 ^15:17I will show thee, hear thou me;

 And that which I have seen I will declare:

 ^15:18(Which wise men have told

 From their fathers, and have not hid it;

 ^15:19Unto whom alone the land was given,

 And no stranger passed among them):

 ^15:20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,

 Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

 ^15:21A sound of terrors is in his ears;

 In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

 ^15:22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,

 And he is waited for of the sword.

 ^15:23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?

 He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

 ^15:24Distress and anguish make him afraid;

 They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

 ^15:25Because he hath stretched out his hand against God,

 And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

 ^15:26He runneth upon him with a stiff neck,

 With the thick bosses of his bucklers;

 ^15:27Because he hath covered his face with his fatness,

 And gathered fat upon his loins;

 ^15:28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities,

 In houses which no man inhabited,

 Which were ready to become heaps;

 ^15:29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,

 Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

 ^15:30He 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.

 ^15:31Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself;

 For vanity shall be his recompense.

 ^15:32It shall be accomplished before his time,

 And his branch shall not be green.

 ^15:33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,

 And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

 ^15:34For the company of the godless shall be barren,

 And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

 ^15:35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity,

 And their heart prepareth deceit.