Job 15 (NET)

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Job 15:1¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:2²“Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:3³Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:4⁴But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:5⁵Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:6⁶Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:7⁷“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:8⁸Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:9⁹What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:10¹⁰The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:11¹¹Are God’s consolations too trivial for you, or a word spoken in gentleness to you?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:12¹²Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:13¹³when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:14¹⁴What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:15¹⁵If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:16¹⁶how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:17¹⁷“I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:18¹⁸what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:19¹⁹to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:20²⁰All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:21²¹Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:22²²He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:23²³he wanders about—food for vultures — he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:24²⁴Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:25²⁵for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:26²⁶defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:27²⁷Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:28²⁸he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:29²⁹He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:30³⁰He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:31³¹Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:32³²Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:33³³Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:34³⁴For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

Job 15:35³⁵They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s

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