Thematic Bible
Job 15:1 (show verse)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
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Job 15:2 (show verse)
"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 15:3 (show verse)
Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?
Job 15:4 (show verse)
But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.
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Job 15:5 (show verse)
Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 15:6 (show verse)
Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
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Job 15:7 (show verse)
"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
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Job 15:8 (show verse)
Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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Job 15:9 (show verse)
What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand?
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Job 15:10 (show verse)
The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.
Job 15:11 (show verse)
Are God's consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?
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Job 15:12 (show verse)
Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
Job 15:13 (show verse)
when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
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Job 15:14 (show verse)
What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15 (show verse)
If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
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Job 15:16 (show verse)
how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
Job 15:17 (show verse)
"I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,
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Job 15:18 (show verse)
what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,
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Job 15:19 (show verse)
to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
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Job 15:20 (show verse)
All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.
Job 15:21 (show verse)
Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
Job 15:22 (show verse)
He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;
Job 15:23 (show verse)
he wanders about -- food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
Job 15:24 (show verse)
Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,
Job 15:25 (show verse)
for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
Job 15:26 (show verse)
defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!
Job 15:27 (show verse)
Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,
Job 15:28 (show verse)
he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
Job 15:29 (show verse)
He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
Job 15:30 (show verse)
He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.
Job 15:31 (show verse)
Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.
Job 15:32 (show verse)
Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.
Job 15:33 (show verse)
Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.
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 evil; their belly prepares deception."