Job-15

(New International Version)

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  • 1 Eliphaz Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
  • 2 “Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
  • 3 Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?
  • 4 But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
  • 5 Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
  • 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.
  • 7 “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
  • 8 Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
  • 9 What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?
  • 10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.
  • 11 Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?
  • 12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
  • 13 so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?
  • 14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?
  • 15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
  • 16 how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!
  • 17 “Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,
  • 18 what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors
  • 19 (to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):
  • 20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.
  • 21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.
  • 22 He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.
  • 23 He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
  • 24 Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,
  • 25 because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
  • 26 defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
  • 27 “Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,
  • 28 he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
  • 29 He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
  • 30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
  • 31 Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.
  • 32 Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.
  • 33 He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.
  • 34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
  • 35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”
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