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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said: <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge,</div><div class="po2">And fill his belly with the east wind?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Should he reason with unprofitable talk,</div><div class="po2">Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Yea, thou doest away with fear,</div><div class="po2">And impairest devotion before God.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,</div><div class="po2">And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;</div><div class="po2">Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Art thou the first man that was born?</div><div class="po2">Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Dost thou hearken in the council of God?</div><div class="po2">And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>What knowest thou, that we know not?</div><div class="po2">What understandest thou, which is not in us?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,</div><div class="po2">Much older than thy father.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Are the consolations of God too small for thee,</div><div class="po2">And the word that dealeth gently with thee?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Why doth thy heart carry thee away?</div><div class="po2">And why do thine eyes wink?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>That thou turnest thy spirit against God,</div><div class="po2">And lettest such words go out of thy mouth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What is man, that he should be clean?</div><div class="po2">And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones;</div><div class="po2">Yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>How much less one that is abominable and impure,</div><div class="po2">Man who drinketh iniquity like water!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will tell thee, hear thou me;</div><div class="po2">And that which I have seen I will declare—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Which wise men have told</div><div class="po2">From their fathers, and have not hid it;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Unto whom alone the land was given,</div><div class="po2">And no stranger passed among them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,</div><div class="po2">Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>A sound of terrors is in his ears:</div><div class="po2">In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,</div><div class="po2">And he is waited for of the sword.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He wandereth abroad for bread: ‘Where is it?’</div><div class="po2">He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Distress and anguish overwhelm him;</div><div class="po2">They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Because he hath stretched out his hand against God,</div><div class="po2">And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He runneth upon him with a stiff neck,</div><div class="po2">With the thick bosses of his bucklers.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Because he hath covered his face with his fatness,</div><div class="po2">And made collops of fat on his loins;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he hath dwelt in desolate cities,</div><div class="po2">In houses which no man would inhabit,</div><div class="po2">Which were ready to become heaps.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,</div><div class="po2">Neither shall their produce bend to the earth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He shall not depart out of darkness;</div><div class="po2">The flame shall dry up his branches,</div><div class="po2">And by the breath of His mouth shall he go away.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself;</div><div class="po2">For vanity shall be his recompense.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>It shall be accomplished before his time,</div><div class="po2">And his branch shall not be leafy.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,</div><div class="po2">And shall cast off his flower as the olive.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For the company of the godless shall be desolate,</div><div class="po2">And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity,</div><div class="po2">And their belly prepareth deceit.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 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