Job 15 | ASV Bible Study

Job 15:1 (ASV)
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Job 15:2 (ASV)
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

Job 15:3 (ASV)
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Job 15:4 (ASV)
Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.

Job 15:5 (ASV)
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Job 15:6 (ASV)
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Job 15:7 (ASV)
Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

Job 15:8 (ASV)
Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

Job 15:9 (ASV)
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

Job 15:10 (ASV)
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

Job 15:11 (ASV)
Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

Job 15:12 (ASV)
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

Job 15:13 (ASV)
That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

Job 15:14 (ASV)
What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Job 15:15 (ASV)
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Job 15:16 (ASV)
How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

Job 15:17 (ASV)
I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:

Job 15:18 (ASV)
(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;

Job 15:19 (ASV)
Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

Job 15:20 (ASV)
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Job 15:21 (ASV)
A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Job 15:22 (ASV)
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

Job 15:23 (ASV)
He wandereth abroad for bread, `saying', Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Job 15:24 (ASV)
Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Job 15:25 (ASV)
Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

Job 15:26 (ASV)
He runneth upon him with a `stiff' neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;

Job 15:27 (ASV)
Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;

Job 15:28 (ASV)
And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

Job 15:29 (ASV)
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

Job 15:30 (ASV)
He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of `God's' mouth shall he go away.

Job 15:31 (ASV)
Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

Job 15:32 (ASV)
It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.

Job 15:33 (ASV)
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

Job 15:34 (ASV)
For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Job 15:35 (ASV)
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.

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