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Job 15 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much

15 Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,

²“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,
^(A)And fill ^[a]himself with the east wind?
³Should he argue with useless talk,
Or with words which do not benefit?
⁴Indeed, you do away with ^[b]reverence,
And hinder meditation before God.
⁵For ^(B)your wrongdoing teaches your mouth,
And you choose the language of ^(C)the cunning.
⁶Your ^(D)own mouth condemns you, and not I;
And your own lips testify against you.

⁷“Were you the first person to be born,
Or ^(E)were you brought forth before the hills?
⁸Do you hear the ^(F)secret discussion of God,
And limit wisdom to yourself?
⁹^(G)What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that ^[c]we do not?
¹⁰Both the ^(H)gray-haired and the aged are among us,
Older than your father.
¹¹Are ^(I)the consolations of God too little for you,
Or the ^(J)word spoken gently to you?
¹²Why does your ^(K)heart take you away?
And why do your eyes wink,
¹³That you can turn your spirit against God
And produce such words from your mouth?
¹⁴What is man, that ^(L)he would be pure,
Or ^(M)he who is born of a woman, that he would be righteous?
¹⁵Behold, He has no trust in His ^(N)holy ones,
And the ^(O)heavens are not pure in His sight;
¹⁶How much less one who is ^(P)detestable and corrupt:
A person who ^(Q)drinks ^[d]malice like water!

What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life

¹⁷“I will tell you, listen to me;
And what I have seen I will also declare;
¹⁸What wise people have told,
And have not concealed from ^(R)their fathers,
¹⁹To whom alone the land was given,
And no stranger passed among them.
²⁰The wicked person writhes ^(S)in pain all his days,
And the ^[e]years ^(T)reserved for the ruthless are numbered.
²¹^[f]Sounds of ^(U)terror are in his ears;
^(V)While he is at peace the destroyer comes upon him.
²²He does not believe that he will ^(W)return from darkness,
And he is destined for ^(X)the sword.
²³He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of ^(Y)darkness is ^[g]at hand.
²⁴Distress and anguish terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,
²⁵Because he has reached out with his hand against God,
And is ^(Z)arrogant toward ^[h]the Almighty.
²⁶He rushes ^[i]headlong at Him
With his ^[j]massive shield.
²⁷For he has ^(AA)covered his face with his fat,
And ^[k]put fat on his waist.
²⁸He has ^(AB)lived in desolate cities,
In houses no one would inhabit,
Which are destined to become ^[l]ruins.
²⁹He ^(AC)will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;
And his property will not stretch out on the earth.
³⁰He will ^(AD)not ^[m]escape from darkness;
The ^(AE)flame will dry up his shoot,
And he will go away by ^(AF)the breath of His mouth.
³¹Let him not ^(AG)trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For his ^[n]reward will be emptiness.
³²It will be accomplished ^(AH)before his time,
And his palm ^(AI)branch will not be green.
³³He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,
And will ^(AJ)cast off his flower like the olive tree.
³⁴For the company of ^(AK)the godless is barren,
And fire consumes ^(AL)the tents of ^[o]the corrupt.
³⁵They ^(AM)conceive ^[p]harm and give birth to wrongdoing,
And their ^[q]mind prepares deception.”

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