Job 15

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1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
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2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
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4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
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5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
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6 Your own mouth comdemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.
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7 Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?
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8 Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
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9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?
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10 With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.
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11 Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?
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12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,
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13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
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14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?
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17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
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18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
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19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
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22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
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23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
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26 He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:
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27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks.
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28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
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29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth.
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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.
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31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.
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32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
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33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
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34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
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35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.
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