Job 15
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Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God
1Then #ch. 2:11Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2“Should #[ch. 12:3] a wise man answer with #ch. 16:3 windy knowledge,
and fill his #ver. 35 belly with #ch. 6:26; 8:2; Hos. 12:1the east wind?
3Should he argue in unprofitable talk,
or in words with which he can do no good?
4But you are doing away with the fear of God#15:4 Hebrew lacks of God
and hindering meditation before God.
5For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6Your #ch. 9:20; Luke 19:22 own mouth condemns you, and not I;
#
2 Sam. 1:16
your own lips testify against you.
7 # [ch. 38:21] “Are you the first man who was born?
Or #Prov. 8:25 were you brought forth #Ps. 90:2before the hills?
8Have you listened in #ch. 29:4; Jer. 23:18; [Gen. 1:26; 3:22]the council of God?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 # ch. 12:3; 13:2 What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10 # [ch. 12:12; 32:6, 7] Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
older than your father.
11Are the comforts of God too small for you,
or the word that deals gently with you?
12Why does your heart carry you away,
and why do your eyes flash,
13that you turn your #[ch. 21:4]spirit against God
and bring such words out of your mouth?
14 # For ver. 14-16, see ch. 25:4-6 What is man, #[ch. 14:4; Ps. 14:3; Prov. 20:9; Eccles. 7:20; 1 John 1:8, 10] that he can be pure?
Or he who is #See ch. 14:1born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15Behold, God#15:15 Hebrew he #ch. 4:18 puts no trust in his #See ch. 5:1holy ones,
and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
16 # ch. 9:14 how much less one who is abominable and #[Ps. 14:3; 53:1] corrupt,
a man who #ch. 34:7; [Prov. 19:28; 26:6]drinks injustice like water!
17“I will show you; hear me,
and what I have seen I will declare
18(what wise men have told,
without hiding it #[ch. 8:8]; See Ps. 44:1from their fathers,
19to whom alone the land was given,
and no #Joel 3:17stranger passed among them).
20The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
through all the #[ch. 21:19; 24:1] years that are laid up for #ch. 6:23; 27:13the ruthless.
21 # See ch. 18:11 Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
in #[1 Thess. 5:3]prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
22He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
and he is marked for the sword.
23He #Ps. 59:15; 109:10wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
24distress and anguish terrify him;
they #ch. 14:20prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
25Because he has stretched out his hand against God
and defies the Almighty,
26 # [ch. 16:14; Dan. 8:6] running #Ps. 75:5stubbornly against him
with a thickly bossed shield;
27because he has #See Ps. 17:10covered his face with his fat
and gathered fat upon his waist
28and has lived in desolate cities,
in houses that none should inhabit,
which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
29he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
nor will his possessions spread over the earth;#15:29 Or nor will his produce bend down to the earth
30he will not depart from darkness;
the flame will dry up his shoots,
and by #ch. 4:9the breath of his mouth he will depart.
31Let him not #[Isa. 59:4]trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
for emptiness will be his payment.
32It will be paid in full #ch. 22:16; Eccles. 7:17; [Ps. 55:23; 102:24]before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
33He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
34For #ch. 16:7 the company of the godless is barren,
and #[ch. 20:26]fire consumes the tents of bribery.
35They #Ps. 7:14; Isa. 59:4; [Hos. 10:13] conceive trouble and give birth to evil,
and their #See ver. 2womb prepares deceit.”
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