4.
Eliphaz's rebuke and warning
15:1-35
Job 15
:1
15:1
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 15
:2
15:2
Should a wise man answer with the knowledge of wind,
And should he fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 15
:3
15:3
Should he argue with useless talk
And with words by which he cannot avail?
Job 15
:4
15:4
Indeed you do away with the fear
of God And restrain meditation before God.
Job 15
:5
15:5
For your iniquity instructs your mouth,
And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15
:6
15:6
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
And your own lips testify against you.
Job 15
:7
15:7
Are you the first man born?
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Job 15
:8
15:8
Did you listen in on the
asecret council of God?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Job 15
:9
15:9
What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not with us?
Job 15
:10
15:10
Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us,
Older than your father.
Job 15
:11
15:11
Are the consolations of God too small for you,
Or the word
spoken gently to you?
Job 15
:12
15:12
Why does your heart take you away?
And why do your eyes flash,
Job 15
:13
15:13
That you turn your spirit against God
And let words go forth from your mouth?
Job 15
:14
15:14
What is mortal man, that he can be
aclean,
Or he who is
bborn of a woman, that he can be
crighteous?
Job 15
:15
15:15
Indeed, He puts no trust in His holy ones;
Even the
aheavens are not clean in His eyes.
Job 15
:16
15:16
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt!
How much less a man who drinks wrong like water!
Job 15
:17
15:17
1I will tell you; hear me;
And what I have seen, that will I recount,
Job 15
:18
15:18
What wise men have declared,
And have not hidden, from their fathers;
Job 15
:19
15:19
To whom alone the land was given,
And no stranger passed in their midst:
Job 15
:20
15:20
For all his days the wicked man travails in pain,
And numbered years are stored up for the ruthless man.
Job 15
:21
15:21
The sound of terrors is in his ears;
While
he is at peace, the destroyer will come upon him.
Job 15
:22
15:22
He does not believe that he will return from the darkness,
And he is spied out for the sword.
Job 15
:23
15:23
He wanders for bread — where is it?
He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
Job 15
:24
15:24
Distress and straits terrify him;
They prevail against him, like a king prepared for the attack;
Job 15
:25
15:25
Because he stretched out his hand against God,
And against the Almighty he acted mightily,
Job 15
:26
15:26
Running against Him with a stiff neck,
With the thick bosses of his shield;
Job 15
:27
15:27
Because he covered his face with his fatness
And gathered fat upon his loins;
Job 15
:28
15:28
And he dwelt in desolated cities,
In houses which should not have been inhabited,
Which were appointed to become heaps.
Job 15
:29
15:29
He will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure;
Nor will
1his produce bend down to the earth.
Job 15
:30
15:30
He will not go away from darkness;
The flame will dry up his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
Job 15
:31
15:31
Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself;
For vanity will be his recompense.
Job 15
:32
15:32
It will be fully paid before his day,
And his branch will not be flourishing.
Job 15
:33
15:33
He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine,
And he will cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
Job 15
:34
15:34
For the company of the profane will be barren,
And fire will devour the tents of bribery.
Job 15
:35
15:35
They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity,
And their heart prepares deceit.
