Job 15 | WEB Bible Study

Job 15:1 (WEB)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Job 15:2 (WEB)
"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

Job 15:3 (WEB)
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Job 15:4 (WEB)
Yes, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.

Job 15:5 (WEB)
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

Job 15:6 (WEB)
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.

Job 15:7 (WEB)
"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

Job 15:8 (WEB)
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Job 15:9 (WEB)
What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

Job 15:10 (WEB)
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.

Job 15:11 (WEB)
Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?

Job 15:12 (WEB)
Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

Job 15:13 (WEB)
That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

Job 15:14 (WEB)
What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 15:15 (WEB)
Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Job 15:16 (WEB)
How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

Job 15:17 (WEB)
"I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

Job 15:18 (WEB)
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;

Job 15:19 (WEB)
To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

Job 15:20 (WEB)
The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Job 15:21 (WEB)
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

Job 15:22 (WEB)
He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

Job 15:23 (WEB)
He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Job 15:24 (WEB)
Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Job 15:25 (WEB)
Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

Job 15:26 (WEB)
He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;

Job 15:27 (WEB)
Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins.

Job 15:28 (WEB)
He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

Job 15:29 (WEB)
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

Job 15:30 (WEB)
He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

Job 15:31 (WEB)
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.

Job 15:32 (WEB)
It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

Job 15:33 (WEB)
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

Job 15:34 (WEB)
For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Job 15:35 (WEB)
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

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