Job 15
About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.
1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,SelectedJob 15:1Ask
2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?SelectedJob 15:2Ask
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?SelectedJob 15:3Ask
4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.SelectedJob 15:4Ask
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.SelectedJob 15:5Ask
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.SelectedJob 15:6Ask
7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?SelectedJob 15:7Ask
8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?SelectedJob 15:8Ask
9What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?SelectedJob 15:9Ask
10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.SelectedJob 15:10Ask
11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?SelectedJob 15:11Ask
12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,SelectedJob 15:12Ask
13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?SelectedJob 15:13Ask
14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?SelectedJob 15:14Ask
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.SelectedJob 15:15Ask
16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?SelectedJob 15:16Ask
17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;SelectedJob 15:17Ask
18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:SelectedJob 15:18Ask
19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.SelectedJob 15:19Ask
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.SelectedJob 15:20Ask
21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.SelectedJob 15:21Ask
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.SelectedJob 15:22Ask
23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.SelectedJob 15:23Ask
24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.SelectedJob 15:24Ask
25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.SelectedJob 15:25Ask
26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:SelectedJob 15:26Ask
27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.SelectedJob 15:27Ask
28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.SelectedJob 15:28Ask
29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.SelectedJob 15:29Ask
30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.SelectedJob 15:30Ask
31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.SelectedJob 15:31Ask
32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.SelectedJob 15:32Ask
33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.SelectedJob 15:33Ask
34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.SelectedJob 15:34Ask
35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.SelectedJob 15:35Ask
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