Thematic Bible
Job 15:1 (show verse)
ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE REPLIED:
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Job 15:2 (show verse)
Should a wise man answer with empty notions or be filled with the hot east wind?
Job 15:3 (show verse)
Would he reason with useless words, with speeches that have no value?
Job 15:4 (show verse)
You even undermine piety and hinder prayer to God.
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Job 15:5 (show verse)
Your sin inspires your mouth. You choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6 (show verse)
Your own mouth condemns you, not mine! Your own lips testify against you.
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Job 15:7 (show verse)
Are you the first man ever born? Were you created before the hills?
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Job 15:8 (show verse)
Have you heard God's council? 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 insights do you have that we do not have?
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Job 15:10 (show verse)
The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.
Job 15:11 (show verse)
Are God's consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?
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Job 15:12 (show verse)
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash?
Job 15:13 (show verse)
Why do you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?
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Job 15:14 (show verse)
What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could 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 vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water!
Job 15:17 (show verse)
Listen to me and I will explain to you what I have seen.
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Job 15:18 (show verse)
What have wise men declared, hiding nothing received from their fathers,
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Job 15:19 (show verse)
to whom alone the land was given when no alien passed among them?
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Job 15:20 (show verse)
All his days the wicked man suffers torment and the ruthless through all the years stored up for him.
Job 15:21 (show verse)
Terrifying sounds fill his ears. When all seems well, marauders attack him.
Job 15:22 (show verse)
He despairs of escaping the darkness; he is marked for the sword.
Job 15:23 (show verse)
He wanders about as food for vultures and he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
Job 15:24 (show verse)
Distress and anguish fill him with terror. They overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack.
Job 15:25 (show verse)
He shakes his fist at God and vaunts (brags) (shows off) himself against the Almighty,
Job 15:26 (show verse)
He defiantly charges against him with a thick, strong shield.
Job 15:27 (show verse)
His face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh.
Job 15:28 (show verse)
He will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
Job 15:29 (show verse)
He will no longer be 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 the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
Job 15:31 (show verse)
Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless. He will get nothing in return.
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)
He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.
Job 15:34 (show verse)
The company of the godless will be barren. And fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
Job 15:35 (show verse)
They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb fashions deceit.