Thematic Bible

Job 15:1

ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE REPLIED:
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Job 15:2

Should a wise man answer with empty notions or be filled with the hot east wind?

Job 15:3

Would he reason with useless words, with speeches that have no value?

Job 15:4

You even undermine piety and hinder prayer to God.
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Job 15:5

Your sin inspires your mouth. You choose the tongue of the crafty.

Job 15:6

Your own mouth condemns you, not mine! Your own lips testify against you.
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Job 15:7

Are you the first man ever born? Were you created before the hills?
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Job 15:8

Have you heard God's council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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Job 15:9

What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?
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Job 15:10

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

Job 15:11

Are God's consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?
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Job 15:12

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash?

Job 15:13

Why do you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?
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Job 15:14

What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could 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 vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water!

Job 15:17

Listen to me and I will explain to you what I have seen.
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Job 15:18

What have wise men declared, hiding nothing received from their fathers,
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Job 15:19

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

All his days the wicked man suffers torment and the ruthless through all the years stored up for him.

Job 15:21

Terrifying sounds fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him.

Job 15:22

He despairs of escaping the darkness; he is marked for the sword.

Job 15:23

He wanders about as food for vultures and he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Job 15:24

Distress and anguish fill him with terror. They overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack.

Job 15:25

He shakes his fist at God and vaunts (brags) (shows off) himself against the Almighty,

Job 15:26

He defiantly charges against him with a thick, strong shield.

Job 15:27

His face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh.

Job 15:28

He will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.

Job 15:29

He will no longer be 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 the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.

Job 15:31

Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless. He will get nothing in return.

Job 15:32

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

Job 15:33

He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.

Job 15:34

The company of the godless will be barren. And fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

Job 15:35

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb fashions deceit.