# Job 15 
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1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 
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2. “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 
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3. Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? 
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4. But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. 
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5. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. 
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6. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. 
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7. “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? 
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8. Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? 
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9. What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? 
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10. Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. 
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11. Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? 
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12. Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, 
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13. that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth? 
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14. What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? 
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15. Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; 
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16. how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water! 
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17. “I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare 
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18. (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers, 
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19. to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them). 
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20. The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless. 
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21. Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. 
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22. He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword. 
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23. He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand; 
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24. distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle. 
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25. Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, 
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26. running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; 
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27. because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist 
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28. and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins; 
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29. he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth; 
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30. he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart. 
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31. Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. 
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32. It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green. 
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33. He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree. 
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34. For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery. 
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35. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.” 

(ESV)