# Job 15 [[Job-14|← Job 14]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-16|Job 16 →]] *** ###### v1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, ###### v2 "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind? ###### v3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good? ###### v4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. ###### v5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. ###### v6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you. ###### v7 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills? ###### v8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? ###### v9 What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand which is not in us? ###### v10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father. ###### v11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you? ###### v12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash, ###### v13 that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth? ###### v14 What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ###### v15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight; ###### v16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water! ###### v17 "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare ###### v18 (which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it; ###### v19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them): ###### v20 the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. ###### v21 A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him. ###### v22 He doesn't believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword. ###### v23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ###### v24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. ###### v25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty, ###### v26 he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers, ###### v27 because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs. ###### v28 He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. ###### v29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth. ###### v30 He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God's mouth. ###### v31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his reward. ###### v32 It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green. ###### v33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree. ###### v34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. ###### v35 They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit." *** [[Job-14|← Job 14]] | [[Job]] | [[Job-16|Job 16 →]]