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cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="/job/">Job</a> > Job 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/14.htm" title="Job 14">◄</a> Job 15 <a href="../job/16.htm" title="Job 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Parallel Chapters</div>Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-1.htm">1</a>Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-1.htm">1</a>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-1.htm">1</a>Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-1.htm">1</a>Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-1.htm">1</a>Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-2.htm">2</a>"Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-2.htm">2</a>“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-2.htm">2</a>"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge And fill himself with the east wind?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-2.htm">2</a>Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-2.htm">2</a>Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill himself with the hot east wind? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-3.htm">3</a>Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-3.htm">3</a>Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-3.htm">3</a>"Should he argue with useless talk, Or with words which are not profitable?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-3.htm">3</a>Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-3.htm">3</a>Should he argue with useless talk or with words that serve no good purpose? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-4.htm">4</a>But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-4.htm">4</a>But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-4.htm">4</a>"Indeed, you do away with reverence And hinder meditation before God.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-4.htm">4</a>Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-4.htm">4</a>But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-5.htm">5</a>Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-5.htm">5</a>For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-5.htm">5</a>"For your guilt teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-5.htm">5</a>For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-5.htm">5</a>Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-6.htm">6</a>Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-6.htm">6</a>Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-6.htm">6</a>"Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; And your own lips testify against you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-6.htm">6</a>Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-6.htm">6</a>Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-7.htm">7</a>"Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-7.htm">7</a>“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-7.htm">7</a>"Were you the first man to be born, Or were you brought forth before the hills?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-7.htm">7</a>Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-7.htm">7</a>Were you the first person ever born, or were you brought forth before the hills? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-8.htm">8</a>Do you listen in on God's council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-8.htm">8</a>Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-8.htm">8</a>"Do you hear the secret counsel of God, And limit wisdom to yourself?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-8.htm">8</a>Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-8.htm">8</a>Do you listen in on the council of God, or have a monopoly on wisdom? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-9.htm">9</a>What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-9.htm">9</a>What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-9.htm">9</a>"What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that we do not?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-9.htm">9</a>What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-9.htm">9</a>What do you know that we don't? What do you understand that is not clear to us? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-10.htm">10</a>The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-10.htm">10</a>Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-10.htm">10</a>"Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Older than your father.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-10.htm">10</a>With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-10.htm">10</a>Both the gray-haired and the elderly are with us, men older than your father. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-11.htm">11</a>Are God's consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-11.htm">11</a>Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-11.htm">11</a>"Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word spoken gently with you?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-11.htm">11</a>Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-11.htm">11</a>Are God's consolations not enough for you, even the words that deal gently with you? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-12.htm">12</a>Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-12.htm">12</a>Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-12.htm">12</a>"Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-12.htm">12</a>Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-12.htm">12</a>Why has your heart misled you, and why do your eyes flash </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-13.htm">13</a>so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-13.htm">13</a>that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-13.htm">13</a>That you should turn your spirit against God And allow such words to go out of your mouth?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-13.htm">13</a>That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-13.htm">13</a>as you turn your anger against God and allow such words to leave your mouth? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-14.htm">14</a>"What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-14.htm">14</a>What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-14.htm">14</a>"What is man, that he should be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-14.htm">14</a>What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-14.htm">14</a>What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-15.htm">15</a>If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-15.htm">15</a>Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-15.htm">15</a>"Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-15.htm">15</a>Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-15.htm">15</a>If God puts no trust in His holy ones and the heavens are not pure in His sight, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-16.htm">16</a>how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-16.htm">16</a>how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-16.htm">16</a>How much less one who is detestable and corrupt, Man, who drinks iniquity like water!</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-16.htm">16</a>How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-16.htm">16</a>how much less one who is revolting and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-17.htm">17</a>"Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-17.htm">17</a>“I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-17.htm">17</a>"I will tell you, listen to me; And what I have seen I will also declare;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-17.htm">17</a>I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-17.htm">17</a>Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-18.htm">18</a>what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-18.htm">18</a>(what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-18.htm">18</a>What wise men have told, And have not concealed from their fathers,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-18.htm">18</a>Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-18.htm">18</a>what was declared by wise men and was not suppressed by their ancestors, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-19.htm">19</a>(to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-19.htm">19</a>to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-19.htm">19</a>To whom alone the land was given, And no alien passed among them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-19.htm">19</a>Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-19.htm">19</a>the land was given to them alone when no foreigner passed among them. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-20.htm">20</a>All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-20.htm">20</a>The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-20.htm">20</a>"The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, And numbered are the years stored up for the ruthless.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-20.htm">20</a>The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-20.htm">20</a>A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-21.htm">21</a>Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-21.htm">21</a>Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-21.htm">21</a>"Sounds of terror are in his ears; While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-21.htm">21</a>A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-21.htm">21</a>Dreadful sounds fill his ears; when he is at peace, a robber attacks him. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-22.htm">22</a>He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-22.htm">22</a>He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-22.htm">22</a>"He does not believe that he will return from darkness, And he is destined for the sword.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-22.htm">22</a>He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-22.htm">22</a>He doesn't believe he will return from darkness; he is destined for the sword. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-23.htm">23</a>He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-23.htm">23</a>He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-23.htm">23</a>"He wanders about for food, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-23.htm">23</a>He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-23.htm">23</a>He wanders about for food, saying, "Where is it?" He knows the day of darkness is at hand. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-24.htm">24</a>Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-24.htm">24</a>distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-24.htm">24</a>"Distress and anguish terrify him, They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-24.htm">24</a>Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-24.htm">24</a>Trouble and distress terrify him, overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-25.htm">25</a>because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-25.htm">25</a>Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-25.htm">25</a>Because he has stretched out his hand against God And conducts himself arrogantly against the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-25.htm">25</a>For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-25.htm">25</a>For he has stretched out his hand against God and has arrogantly opposed the Almighty. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-26.htm">26</a>defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-26.htm">26</a>running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-26.htm">26</a>"He rushes headlong at Him With his massive shield.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-26.htm">26</a>He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-26.htm">26</a>He rushes headlong at Him with his thick, studded shields. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-27.htm">27</a>"Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-27.htm">27</a>because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-27.htm">27</a>"For he has covered his face with his fat And made his thighs heavy with flesh.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-27.htm">27</a>Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-27.htm">27</a>Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with it, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-28.htm">28</a>he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-28.htm">28</a>and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-28.htm">28</a>"He has lived in desolate cities, In houses no one would inhabit, Which are destined to become ruins.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-28.htm">28</a>And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-28.htm">28</a>he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-29.htm">29</a>He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-29.htm">29</a>he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-29.htm">29</a>"He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure; And his grain will not bend down to the ground.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-29.htm">29</a>He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-29.htm">29</a>He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not increase in the land. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/15.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-30.htm">30</a>He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-30.htm">30</a>he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-30.htm">30</a>"He will not escape from darkness; The flame will wither his shoots, And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-30.htm">30</a>He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-30.htm">30</a>He will not escape from the darkness; flames will wither his shoots, and by the breath of God's mouth, he will depart. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-31.htm">31</a>Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-31.htm">31</a>Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-31.htm">31</a>"Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness will be his reward.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-31.htm">31</a>Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-31.htm">31</a>Let him not put trust in worthless things, being led astray, for what he gets in exchange will prove worthless. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-32.htm">32</a>Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-32.htm">32</a>It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-32.htm">32</a>"It will be accomplished before his time, And his palm branch will not be green.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-32.htm">32</a>It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-32.htm">32</a>It will be accomplished before his time, and his branch will not flourish. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-33.htm">33</a>He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-33.htm">33</a>He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-33.htm">33</a>"He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine, And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-33.htm">33</a>He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-33.htm">33</a>He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-34.htm">34</a>For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-34.htm">34</a>For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-34.htm">34</a>"For the company of the godless is barren, And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-34.htm">34</a>For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-34.htm">34</a>For the company of the godless will have no children, and fire will consume the tents of those who offer bribes. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-35.htm">35</a>They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit."</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-35.htm">35</a>They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-35.htm">35</a>"They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, And their mind prepares deception."</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-35.htm">35</a>They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/15-35.htm">35</a>They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb prepares deception. </td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. 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