Job 15

Revised Geneva Translation

15 “Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

² “Shall a wise man speak words of the wind, and fill his belly with the East wind?

³ “Shall he dispute with unprofitable words or with talk that is of no benefit?

⁴ “Surely, you have cast off fear and restrained prayer before God:

⁵ “For your mouth declares your iniquity, seeing you have chosen the tongue of the crafty.

⁶ “Your own mouth condemns you, and not me. And your lips testify against you.

⁷ “Are you the first man who was born? And were you made before the hills?

⁸ “Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you restrain wisdom to yourself?

⁹ “What do you know that we do not know, understand that is not in us?

¹⁰ “With us are both ancient and very aged men, far older than your father.

¹¹ “Do the consolations of God seem small to you? Is this thing strange to you?

¹² “Why does your heart take you away? And at what are you winking,

¹³ “that you answer to God at your pleasure and bring such words out of your mouth?

¹⁴ “What is man, that he would be clean? And he who is born of woman, that he would be just?

¹⁵ “Behold, He found no steadfastness in His saints. Yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

¹⁶ “How much more abominable is man, and filthy, who drinks iniquity like water?

¹⁷ “I will tell you. Hear me, and I will declare that which I have seen,

¹⁸ “which wise men have told from their fathers and have not kept secret,

¹⁹ “to whom alone the land was given. And no stranger passed through them.

²⁰ “The wicked man is continually as one who writhes in pain. And the number of years is hidden from the tyrant.

²¹ “A sound of fear is in his ears. In his prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

²² “He does not believe he will return out of darkness, for he sees the sword before him.

²³ “He wanders to and fro for bread. He knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

²⁴ “Affliction and anguish shall make him afraid. They shall prevail against him as a king, ready to battle.

²⁵ “For he has stretched out his hand against God and made himself strong against the Almighty.

²⁶ “running upon Him, with the most thick part of his shield.

²⁷ “Because he has covered his face with his fatness, and excess fat is in his loins.

²⁸ “He dwells in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabits, but have become heaps.

²⁹ “He shall not be rich. Nor shall his substance continue. Nor shall he prolong its gain on the Earth.

³⁰ “He shall never depart from darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. And he shall go away with the breath of His mouth.

³¹ “Let him not err in his trust of frivolity. For frivolity shall be his reward.

³² “His branch shall not be green, but shall be cut off before his day.

³³ “God shall destroy him as the vine does her sour grape, and shall cast him off as the olive does her flower.

³⁴ “For the congregation of the hypocrite shall be desolate. And fire shall devour the houses of bribes.

³⁵ “They conceive mischief and bring forth emptiness. And their belly has prepared deceit.”