Job 15
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Eliphaz Speaks: Job Does Not Fear God
1#Job 2:11Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
2#Job 6:26; 8:2 “Should a wise man reply with empty knowledge
and fill his lungs with the east wind?
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk
or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4Yes, you cast off reverence
and hinder prayer before God.
5For your mouth utters your iniquity,
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6#Lk 19:22; Job 9:20 Your own mouth condemns you, and notI;
yes, your own lips testify against you.
7#Ps 90:2 “Are you the first man who was born?
Or were you made before the hills?
8#Ro 11:34; Jer 23:18 Have you heard the counsel of God?
And do you restrict wisdom to yourself?
9#Job 13:2 What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that is not in us?
10#Job 32:6–7 Both the gray-haired and very aged are among us—
much older than your father.
11Are the consolations of God too small for you?
Or the word spoken gently to you?
12Why does your heart carry you away?
And what do your eyes wink at,
13that you turn your spirit against God,
and let such words go out of your mouth?
14#Job 14:4; Pr 20:9 “What is man that he should be pure?
And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15#Job 4:18; 25:5 Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones,
and the heavens are not pure in His sight.
16#Job 34:7; Pr 19:28 How much more abhorred and corrupt is man,
who drinks iniquity like water!
17“I will tell you; hear me,
and what I have seen I will declare,
18#Job 8:8 what wise men have told,
not hiding anything received from their fathers,
19#Joel 3:17 to whom alone the land was given,
and no foreigner passed among them:
20#Job 24:1; 27:13 The wicked man travails with pain all his days,
and numbered are the years stored up for the oppressor.
21#Job 18:11; 1Th 5:3 A dreadful sound is in his ears;
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
22He does not believe that he will return from darkness,
and a sword awaits him.
23#Ps 59:15; 109:10 He wanders about for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24Trouble and anguish will make him afraid;
they will prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.
25For he stretches out his hand against God,
and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
26He rushes upon Him, even on His neck,
with his thick embossed shield.
27#Ps 17:10; 73:7 “He has covered his face with his fatness
and gathered fat upon his waist.
28#Job 3:14 He dwells in desolate cities
and in houses which no man inhabits,
which are ready to become heaps.
29#Job 27:16–17 He will not be rich, nor will his wealth continue,
nor will his possessions spread over the earth.
30#Job 4:9; 15:22 He will not depart out of darkness;
the flame will dry out his branches,
and by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
31#Isa 59:4 Let him who is deceived not trust in futility,
for futility will be his reward.
32#Job 22:16; Ecc 7:17 It will be accomplished before his time,
and his branch will not be green.
33He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
and will cast off his blossom like the olive.
34#Job 8:13 For the company of hypocrites will be desolate,
and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
35#Ps 7:14; Hos 10:13 They conceive mischief, and give birth to futility;
their womb prepares deceit.”
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