# Job 15 [[Job 14|←]] • [[Job 16|→]] --- ### 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, ### 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? ### 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? ### 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. ### 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. ### 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. ### 7 thou the first man was born? or wast thou made before the hills? ### 8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? ### 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? understandest thou, which not in us? ### 10 With us both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. ### 11 the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? ### 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, ### 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth? ### 14 What man, that he should be clean? and born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ### 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. ### 16 How much more abominable and filthy man, which drinketh iniquity like water? ### 17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that I have seen I will declare; ### 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid ### 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. ### 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. ### 21 A dreadful sound in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. ### 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. ### 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, Where he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ### 24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. ### 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. ### 26 He runneth upon him, on neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: ### 27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on flanks. ### 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. ### 29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. ### 30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. ### 31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. ### 32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ### 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. ### 34 For the congregation of hypocrites desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. ### 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.