Thematic Bible
Job 15:1 (show verse)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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Job 15:2 (show verse)
"Should [the] wise answer [with] windy knowledge, and should he fill his stomach [with the] east wind?
Job 15:3 (show verse)
Should he argue in talk [that] is not profitable or [in] words with which he cannot do good?
Job 15:4 (show verse)
"{What is worse}, you yourself are doing away with fear, and you are lessening 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 mouth condemns you, and not I; and your lips testify against you.
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Job 15:7 (show verse)
"Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth {before} [the] hills?
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Job 15:8 (show verse)
Have you listened in God's confidential discussion? 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] old [are] among us-- {those older than your father}.
Job 15:11 (show verse)
"Are the consolations of God too small for you, a word [spoken] 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 you let [such] words go out of your mouth?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 15:14 (show verse)
"What [is] a human being, that he can be clean, or that [one] born of a woman can be righteous?
Job 15:15 (show verse)
Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and [the] heavens are not clean in his eyes.
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Job 15:16 (show verse)
{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.
Job 15:17 (show verse)
"I will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell--
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Job 15:18 (show verse)
what wise men have told, and they have not hidden [that which is] from their ancestors,
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Job 15:19 (show verse)
{to whom alone} the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.
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Job 15:20 (show verse)
"All of the wicked [one's] days he is writhing, even [through] the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.
Job 15:21 (show verse)
Sounds of terror [are] in his ears; in prosperity [the] destroyer will come [against] him.
Job 15:22 (show verse)
{He cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.
Job 15:23 (show verse)
"He is wandering for bread, [saying], 'Where [is it]?' He knows that a day of darkness [is] ready {at hand}.
Job 15:24 (show verse)
Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle.
Job 15:25 (show verse)
Because he stretched out his hand against God, and he was arrogant to Shaddai;
Job 15:26 (show verse)
he {stubbornly} runs against him {with his thick-bossed shield}.
Job 15:27 (show verse)
"Because he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon [his] loins,
Job 15:28 (show verse)
{he will dwell} [in] desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.
Job 15:29 (show verse)
He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.
Job 15:30 (show verse)
"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.
Job 15:31 (show verse)
Let him not trust in emptiness--he will be deceiving himself-- for worthlessness will be his recompense.
Job 15:32 (show verse)
It will be paid in full {before his time}, and his branch will not flourish.
Job 15:33 (show verse)
"He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will 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 those who accept bribes.
Job 15:35 (show verse)
[They] conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit."