Job, Chapter 15:
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Verses from Job, Chapter 15 of the book of Job in the Bible.
Eliphaz
- 1. Then Eliphaz of Teman answered:
- 2. “Will a wise man answer with empty words and fill his stomach with wind?
- 3. Your useless speeches condemn your piety; decrease their devotion to God.
- 4. Your sin motivates your mouth, adopts the language of the cunning.
- 5. It is your own mouth that accuses you, not mine; your lips testify against you.
- 6. Were you the first to be born? Was it begotten before the hills?
- 7. Have you listened to God's reserved advice? Is the wisdom exclusively yours?
- 8. What do you know that we don't know? What understanding do you have that we don't have?
- 9. We have with us wise men and those of advanced age, much older than their father.
- 10. For you, are divine consolations and our friendly words not enough?
- 11. Why does your heart lead you to act like this? Why do your eyes twinkle?
- 12 You direct your anger against God and pour words out of your mouth!
- 13. “How can man be pure? How can he be righteous who is born of a woman?
- 14. If God does not trust his saints, if not even the heavens are pure in his eyes,
- 15. how much less man, who is impure and corrupt, who drinks iniquity like water.
- 16. “Listen to me, and I will show you what I saw, what the wise men declared, hiding nothing that they received from their fathers.
- 17. To them the land was given, and to no one else; no foreigner passed among them.
- 18. The wicked suffers torment throughout his life, and the cruel man suffers only a few years of torment.
- 19. Heard only frightening rumors; when he is at peace, the destroyers attack him.
- 20. There is no hope of escaping the darkness; He knows he is destined for the sword.
- 21. He wanders; it is food for vultures; You know the darkness is near.
- 22. Anguish and fear dominate him, like a king ready for combat,
- 23. for he raised his hand against God and defied the Almighty.
- 24. He was filled with pride, his face covered in fat and his waist full of flesh.
- 25. He will live in destroyed cities, in abandoned houses, ready to collapse.
- 26. You will never be rich again; their wealth will not endure, and their goods will not spread throughout the earth.
- 27. He will not escape the darkness; the fire will consume its branches and the wrath of God will overtake it.
- 28. Let him not trust in falsehood, for he will only have deception as his reward.
- 29. He will receive payment ahead of time, and his branches will not blossom.
- 30. He will be like a barren vine, like an olive tree that loses its blossom,
- 31. for the company of the wicked will not bring you any benefit, and the fire will consume the tents of those who take bribes.
- 32. He conceives evil and gives birth to iniquity; your belly generates deception.”
