Thematic Bible

Job 15:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
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Job 15:2

"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?

Job 15:3

Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?

Job 15:4

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.
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Job 15:5

Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.

Job 15:6

Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
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Job 15:7

"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
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Job 15:8

Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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Job 15:9

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

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

Job 15:11

Are God's consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 15:12

Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

Job 15:13

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
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Job 15:14

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 15:15

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

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

Job 15:17

"I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,
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Job 15:18

what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,
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Job 15:19

to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
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Job 15:20

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

Job 15:22

He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

Job 15:23

he wanders about -- food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 15:24

Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

Job 15:25

for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

Job 15:26

defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

Job 15:27

Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

Job 15:28

he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

Job 15:29

He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

Job 15:30

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

Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

Job 15:32

Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

Job 15:33

Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

Job 15:34

For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception."