Job 15:12-29

English Standard Version

¹²Why does your heart carry you away,
    and why do your eyes flash,
¹³that you turn your ^(A)spirit against God
    and bring such words out of your mouth?
¹⁴^(B)What is man, ^(C)that he can be pure?
    Or he who is ^(D)born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
¹⁵Behold, God^[a] ^(E)puts no trust in his ^(F)holy ones,
    and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
¹⁶^(G)how much less one who is abominable and ^(H)corrupt,
    a man who ^(I)drinks injustice like water!

¹⁷“I will show you; hear me,
    and what I have seen I will declare
¹⁸(what wise men have told,
    without hiding it ^(J)from their fathers,
¹⁹to whom alone the land was given,
    and no ^(K)stranger passed among them).
²⁰The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
    through all the ^(L)years that are laid up for ^(M)the ruthless.
²¹^(N)Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
    in ^(O)prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
²²He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
    and he is marked for the sword.
²³He ^(P)wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
    He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
²⁴distress and anguish terrify him;
    they ^(Q)prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
²⁵Because he has stretched out his hand against God
    and defies the Almighty,
²⁶^(R)running ^(S)stubbornly against him
    with a thickly bossed shield;
²⁷because he has ^(T)covered his face with his fat
    and gathered fat upon his waist
²⁸and has lived in desolate cities,
    in houses that none should inhabit,
    which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
²⁹he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
    nor will his possessions spread over the earth;^[b]