Job 15

1 ♥ 📝 T hen answered^H6030 Eliphaz^H464 the Temanite,^H8489 and said,^H559

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

3 ♥ 📝 Should he reason^H3198 with unprofitable^H5532 talk,^H1697 Or with speeches^H4405 wherewith he can do no good?^H3276

4 ♥ 📝 Yea, thou doest away^H6565 with fear,^H3374 And hinderest^H1639 devotion^H7881 before^H6440 God.^H410

5 ♥ 📝 For thine iniquity^H5771 teacheth^H502 thy mouth,^H6310 And thou choosest^H977 the tongue^H3956 of the crafty.^H6175

6 ♥ 📝 Thine own mouth^H6310 condemneth^H7561 thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips^H8193 testify^H6030 against thee.

7 ♥ 📝 Art thou the first^H7223 man^H120 that was born?^H3205 Or wast thou brought^H2342 forth before^H6440 the hills?^H1389

8 ♥ 📝 Hast thou heard^H8085 the secret^H5475 counsel of God?^H433 And dost thou limit^H1639 wisdom^H2451 to thyself?

9 ♥ 📝 What knowest^H3045 thou, that we know^H3045 not? What understandest^H995 thou, which is not in us?

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

11 ♥ 📝 Are the consolations^H8575 of God^H410 too small^H4592 for thee, Even the word^H1697 that is gentle^H328 toward thee?

12 ♥ 📝 Why doth thy heart^H3820 carry thee away?^H3947 And why do thine eyes^H5869 flash,^H7335

13 ♥ 📝 That against God^H410 thou turnest^H7725 thy spirit,^H7307 And lettest words^H4405 go out^H3318 of thy mouth?^H6310

14 ♥ 📝 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

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

16 ♥ 📝 How much less one^H376 that is abominable^H8581 and corrupt, A man^H376 that drinketh^H8354 iniquity^H5766 like water!^H4325

17 ♥ 📝 I will show^H2331 thee, hear^H8085 thou me; And that which I have seen^H2372 I will declare:^H5608

18 ♥ 📝 (Which wise^H2450 men have told^H5046 From their fathers,^H1 and have not hid^H3582 it;

19 ♥ 📝 Unto whom alone the land^H776 was given,^H5414 And no stranger^H2114 passed^H5674 among^H8432 them):

20 ♥ 📝 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

21 ♥ 📝 A sound^H6963 of terrors^H6343 is in his ears;^H241 In prosperity^H7965 the destroyer^H7703 shall come^H935 upon him.

22 ♥ 📝 He believeth^H539 not that he shall return^H7725 out of darkness,^H2822 And he is waited^H6822 for of the sword.^H2719

23 ♥ 📝 He wandereth abroad^H5074 for bread,^H3899 [saying], Where is it? He knoweth^H3045 that the day^H3117 of darkness^H2822 is ready^H3559 at his hand.^H3027

24 ♥ 📝 Distress^H6862 and anguish^H4691 make him afraid;^H1204 They prevail^H8630 against him, as a king^H4428 ready^H6264 to the battle.^H3593

25 ♥ 📝 Because he hath stretched out^H5186 his hand^H3027 against God,^H410 And behaveth himself proudly^H1396 against the Almighty;^H7706

26 ♥ 📝 He runneth^H7323 upon him with a [stiff] neck,^H6677 With the thick^H5672 bosses^H1354 of his bucklers;^H4043

27 ♥ 📝 Because he hath covered^H3680 his face^H6440 with his fatness,^H2459 And gathered^H6213 fat^H6371 upon his loins;^H3689

28 ♥ 📝 And he hath dwelt^H7931 in desolate^H3582 cities,^H5892 In houses^H1004 which no man inhabited,^H3427 Which were ready^H6257 to become heaps;^H1530

29 ♥ 📝 He shall not be rich,^H6238 neither shall his substance^H2428 continue,^H6965 Neither shall their possessions^H5186 be extended^H4512 on the earth.^H776

30 ♥ 📝 He shall not depart^H5493 out of darkness;^H2822 The flame^H7957 shall dry up^H3001 his branches,^H3127 And by the breath^H7307 of [God's] mouth^H6310 shall he go away.^H5493

31 ♥ 📝 Let him not trust^H539 in vanity,^H7723 deceiving^H8582 himself; For vanity^H7723 shall be his recompense.^H8545

32 ♥ 📝 It shall be accomplished^H4390 before^H3808 his time,^H3117 And his branch^H3712 shall not be green.^H7488

33 ♥ 📝 He shall shake off^H2554 his unripe grape^H1154 as the vine,^H1612 And shall cast off^H7993 his flower^H5328 as the olive-tree.^H2132

34 ♥ 📝 For the company^H5712 of the godless^H2611 shall be barren,^H1565 And fire^H784 shall consume^H398 the tents^H168 of bribery.^H7810

35 ♥ 📝 They conceive^H2029 mischief,^H5999 and bring forth^H3205 iniquity,^H205 And their heart^H990 prepareth^H3559 deceit.^H4820