Thematic Bible
Job 15:1 (show verse)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
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Job 15:2 (show verse)
"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 15:3 (show verse)
Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
Job 15:4 (show verse)
But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.
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Job 15:5 (show verse)
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6 (show verse)
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
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Job 15:7 (show verse)
"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
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Job 15:8 (show verse)
Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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Job 15:9 (show verse)
What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
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Job 15:10 (show verse)
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
Job 15:11 (show verse)
Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
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Job 15:12 (show verse)
Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
Job 15:13 (show verse)
that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?
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Job 15:14 (show verse)
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Job 15:15 (show verse)
Behold, Godputs no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
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Job 15:16 (show verse)
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
Job 15:17 (show verse)
"I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare
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Job 15:18 (show verse)
(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
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Job 15:19 (show verse)
to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
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Job 15:20 (show verse)
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
Job 15:21 (show verse)
Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
Job 15:22 (show verse)
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.
Job 15:23 (show verse)
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
Job 15:24 (show verse)
distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
Job 15:25 (show verse)
Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,
Job 15:26 (show verse)
running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
Job 15:27 (show verse)
because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
Job 15:28 (show verse)
and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
Job 15:29 (show verse)
he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;
Job 15:30 (show verse)
he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
Job 15:31 (show verse)
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
Job 15:32 (show verse)
It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
Job 15:33 (show verse)
He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
Job 15:34 (show verse)
For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
Job 15:35 (show verse)
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."