English Bible
Job 15
Big screen- 1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
- 2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- 3Should he reason with useless talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
- 4Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
- 5For your mouth utters yours iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
- 6Yours own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, yours own lips testify against you.
- 7Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
- 8Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
- 9What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
- 10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than your father.
- 11Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
- 12Why does yours heart carry you away? and what do your eyes overlook,
- 13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
- 14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- 15Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
- 16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
- 17I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
- 18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
- 19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
- 20The wicked man labors with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
- 21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- 22He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
- 23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
- 24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
- 25For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
- 26He runs upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
- 27Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes fatness on his flanks.
- 28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
- 29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
- 30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
- 31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
- 32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
- 33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
- 34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
- 35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.