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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 15 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/15-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking wind, and will he fill his stomach with fire?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You rebuke with words he who is not equal to you, and you speak what is not expedient for you,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>to such an extent that, within yourself, you have expelled reverence and have taken away prayers from the presence of God.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For your iniquity has mislead your mouth, and you imitate the tongue of blasphemers.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Your own mouth will condemn you, not I; and your own lips will answer you.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Are you the first man who was born, or were you formed before the hills?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Have you heard the intentions of God, and will his wisdom be inferior to you?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>What do you know, about which we are ignorant? What do you understand that we do not know?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>There are with us both aged and ancient men, even more senior than your fathers.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Is it so important that God should console you? But your own depraved words prevent this.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Why does your heart exalt you, and why do you gaze with your eyes, as if thinking great things?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Why does your spirit stir against God, so as to utter such speeches from your mouth?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What is man that he should be immaculate, and that he should appear just, having been born of woman?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, among his holy ones not one is immutable, and even the heavens are not pure in his sight.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will reveal to you, so listen to me; and I will explain to you what I have seen.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The wise acknowledge, and they do not leave behind, their fathers,<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>to whom alone the earth has been given, and no stranger passed among them.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The impious is arrogant for all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The sound of terror is always in his ears; and when there is peace, he always suspects treason.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He does not believe that it is possible for him to be turned from darkness into the light, for he sees around him the sword on every side.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When he moves himself to seek bread, he knows that the day of darkness has been prepared for his hand.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Tribulation will terrify him, and anguish will prevail over him, like a king who is being prepared to go to battle.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For he has extended his hand against God, and he has strengthened himself against the Almighty.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He has rushed against him with his throat exposed, and he has been armed with a fat neck.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Thickness has covered his face, and lard hangs down from his sides.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He has lived in desolate cities and deserted houses, which have been turned into tombs.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He will not be enriched, nor will his basic necessities endure, nor will he establish his root in the earth.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He will not withdraw from the darkness; the flame will burn up his branches, and he will be defeated by the breath of his own mouth.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He will not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he could be redeemed at any price.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Before his time is completed, he will pass into ruin and his hands will wither away.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He will be wounded like a grapevine, when its cluster is in first flower, and like an olive tree that casts off its flower.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For the congregation of the hypocrites is fruitless, and fire will devour the tabernacles of those who love to accept money.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He has conceived sorrow, and he has brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepares deceit.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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 16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>