Thematic Bible
Job 15:1 (show verse)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered [Job] and said,
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:2 (show verse)
“Should a wise man [such as you] utter such windy and vain knowledge [as we have just heard]
And fill himself with the east wind [of withering, parching, and violent accusations]?
Job 15:3 (show verse)
“Should he rebuke and argue with useless talk?
Or with words in which there is no benefit?
Job 15:4 (show verse)
“Indeed, you are doing away with fear,
And you are diminishing meditation before God.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:5 (show verse)
“For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose [to speak] the language of the crafty and cunning.
Job 15:6 (show verse)
“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
Yes, your own lips testify against you.
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Job 15:7 (show verse)
“Were you the first man to be born [the original wise man],
Or were you created before the hills?
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Job 15:8 (show verse)
“Do you hear the secret counsel of God,
And do you limit [the possession of] wisdom to yourself?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:9 (show verse)
“What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not equally clear to us?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:10 (show verse)
“Among us are both the gray-haired and the aged,
Older than your father.
Job 15:11 (show verse)
“Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you,
[Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:12 (show verse)
“Why does your heart carry you away [allowing you to be controlled by emotion]?
And why do your eyes flash [in anger or contempt],
Job 15:13 (show verse)
That you should turn your spirit against God
And let such words [as you have spoken] go out of your mouth?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:14 (show verse)
“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?
Job 15:15 (show verse)
“Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones (angels);
Indeed, the heavens are not pure in His sight—
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Job 15:16 (show verse)
How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt,
Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!
Job 15:17 (show verse)
“I will tell you, listen to me;
And what I have seen I will also declare;
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:18 (show verse)
What wise men have [freely] told,
And have not hidden [anything passed on to them] from their fathers,
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:19 (show verse)
To whom alone the land was given,
And no stranger passed among them [corrupting the truth].
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:20 (show verse)
“The wicked man writhes with pain all his days,
And numbered are the years stored up for him, the ruthless one.
Job 15:21 (show verse)
“A [dreadful] sound of terrors is in his ears;
While at peace and in a time of prosperity the destroyer comes upon him [the tent of the robber is not at peace].
Job 15:22 (show verse)
“He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered],
And he is destined for the sword [of God’s vengeance].
Job 15:23 (show verse)
“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.
Job 15:24 (show verse)
“Distress and anxiety terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for battle.
Job 15:25 (show verse)
“Because he has stretched out his hand against God
And behaves arrogantly against
Job 15:26 (show verse)
Running and charging headlong against Him
With his ornamented and massive shield;
Job 15:27 (show verse)
For he has covered his face with his fat,
Adding layers of fat to his thighs [giving himself up to pleasures],
Job 15:28 (show verse)
And he has lived in desolate [God-forsaken] cities,
In houses which no one should inhabit,
Which were destined to become heaps [of ruins];
Job 15:29 (show verse)
He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;
And his grain will not bend to the earth nor his possessions be extended on the earth.
Job 15:30 (show verse)
“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];
The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,
And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.
Job 15:31 (show verse)
“Let him not trust in vanity (emptiness, futility) and be led astray;
For emptiness will be his
Job 15:32 (show verse)
“It will be fulfilled while he still lives,
And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].
Job 15:33 (show verse)
“He will fail to bring his grapes to maturity [leaving them to wither unnourished] on the vine,
And will cast off blossoms [and fail to bring forth fruit] like the olive tree.
Job 15:34 (show verse)
“For the company of the godless is barren,
And fire consumes the tents of bribery (wrong and injustice).
Job 15:35 (show verse)
“They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness,
And their inmost soul prepares deceit and fraud.”