Job 15

Then answered{H6030} Eliphaz{H464} the Temanite,{H8489} and said,{H559}

Should a wise man{H2450} make answer{H6030} with vain{H7307} knowledge,{H1847} And fill{H4390} himself{H990} with the east wind?{H6921}

Should he reason{H3198} with unprofitable{H5532} talk,{H1697} Or with speeches{H4405} wherewith he can do no good?{H3276}

Yea, thou doest away{H6565} with fear,{H3374} And hinderest{H1639} devotion{H7881} before{H6440} God.{H410}

For thine iniquity{H5771} teacheth{H502} thy mouth,{H6310} And thou choosest{H977} the tongue{H3956} of the crafty.{H6175}

Thine own mouth{H6310} condemneth{H7561} thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips{H8193} testify{H6030} against thee.

Art thou the first{H7223} man{H120} that was born?{H3205} Or wast thou brought{H2342} forth before{H6440} the hills?{H1389}

Hast thou heard{H8085} the secret{H5475} counsel of God?{H433} And dost thou limit{H1639} wisdom{H2451} to thyself?

What knowest{H3045} thou, that we know{H3045} not? What understandest{H995} thou, which is not in us?

With us are both the gray-headed{H7867} and the very aged{H3453} men, Much{H3524} elder{H3117} than thy father.{H1}

Are the consolations{H8575} of God{H410} too small{H4592} for thee, Even the word{H1697} that is gentle{H328} toward thee?

Why doth thy heart{H3820} carry thee away?{H3947} And why do thine eyes{H5869} flash,{H7335}

That against God{H410} thou turnest{H7725} thy spirit,{H7307} And lettest words{H4405} go out{H3318} of thy mouth?{H6310}

What is man,{H582} that he should be clean?{H2135} And he that is born{H3205} of a woman,{H802} that he should be righteous?{H6663}

Behold, he putteth no trust{H539} in his holy{H6918} ones; Yea, the heavens{H8064} are not clean{H2141} in his sight:{H5869}

How much less one{H376} that is abominable{H8581} and corrupt, A man{H376} that drinketh{H8354} iniquity{H5766} like water!{H4325}

I will show{H2331} thee, hear{H8085} thou me; And that which I have seen{H2372} I will declare:{H5608}

(Which wise{H2450} men have told{H5046} From their fathers,{H1} and have not hid{H3582} it;

Unto whom alone the land{H776} was given,{H5414} And no stranger{H2114} passed{H5674} among{H8432} them):

The wicked{H7563} man travaileth{H2342} with pain all his days,{H3117} Even the number{H4557} of years{H8141} that are laid{H6845} up for the oppressor.{H6184}