Book of Job, Chapter 15
Job 15 ASV - American Standard VersionChapter 15 of Job—American Standard Version (ASV)
- ¶ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
- ¶ Should a wise man make answer with [a]vain knowledge,
¶ And fill himself with the east wind? - ¶ Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
¶ Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? - ¶ Yea, thou doest away with fear,
¶ And [b]hinderest [c]devotion before God. - ¶ For [d]thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,
¶ And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. - ¶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;
¶ Yea, thine own lips testify against thee. - ¶ Art thou the first man that was born?
¶ Or wast thou brought forth before the hills? - ¶ [e]Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God?
¶ And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself? - ¶ What knowest thou, that we know not?
¶ What understandest thou, which is not in us? - ¶ With us are both the grayheaded and the very aged men,
¶ Much elder than thy father. - ¶ Are the consolations of God too small for thee,
¶ [f]Even the word that is gentle toward thee? - ¶ Why doth thy heart carry thee away?
¶ And why do thine eyes flash, - ¶ That against God thou turnest thy spirit,
¶ And lettest words go out of thy mouth? - ¶ What is man, that he should be clean?
¶ And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? - ¶ Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones;
¶ Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: - ¶ How much less [g]one that is abominable and corrupt,
¶ A man that drinketh iniquity like water! - ¶ I will show thee, hear thou me;
¶ And that which I have seen I will declare - ¶ (Which wise men have told
¶ From their fathers, and have not hid it; - ¶ Unto whom alone the land was given,
¶ And no stranger passed among them): - ¶ The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,
¶ [h]Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. - ¶ A sound of terrors is in his ears;
¶ In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. - ¶ He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,
¶ And he is waited for of the sword. - ¶ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
¶ He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. - ¶ Distress and anguish make him afraid;
¶ They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. - ¶ Because he hath stretched out his hand against God,
¶ And [i]behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty; - ¶ He runneth upon him with a stiff neck,
¶ [j]With the thick bosses of his bucklers; - ¶ Because he hath covered his face with his fatness,
¶ And gathered fat upon his loins; - ¶ And he hath dwelt in [k]desolate cities,
¶ In houses which no man [l]inhabited,
¶ Which were ready to become heaps; - ¶ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
¶ Neither shall [m]their possessions be extended on the earth. - ¶ He shall not depart out of darkness;
¶ The flame shall dry up his branches,
¶ And by the breath of [n]God’s mouth shall he go away. - ¶ Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself;
¶ For vanity shall be his recompense. - ¶ It shall be [o]accomplished before his time,
¶ And his branch shall not be green. - ¶ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
¶ And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree. - ¶ For the company of the godless shall be barren,
¶ And fire shall consume the tents of bribery. - ¶ They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity,
¶ And their heart prepareth deceit.
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Hebrew knowledge of wind.
- ^ Hebrew diminishest.
- ^ Or, meditation
- ^ Or, thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity
- ^ Or, Dost thou hearken in the council
- ^ Or, Or is there any secret thing with thee?
- ^ Or, that which is
- ^ Or, And years that are numbered are laid up etc.
- ^ Or, biddeth defiance to
- ^ Or, Upon
- ^ Hebrew cut off.
- ^ Or, would inhabit
- ^ Or, their produce bend to the earth
- ^ Hebrew his.
- ^ Or, paid in full
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