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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 Coverdale Bible</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">Coverdale Bible</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">Coverdale Bible of 1535</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>Then answered Eliphas the Themanite, and sayde:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Shulde a wyse man geue soch an answere (as it were one that spake in the wynde) and fyll his stomacke with anger?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Thou reprouest wt wordes, that are nothinge wroth: and speakest the thinges, which can do no good.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As for shame, thou hast set it asyde, els woldest thou not make so many wordes before God:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>but thy wickednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftie tonge.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thine owne mouth condemneth the, and not I: yee thine owne lippes shappe the an answere.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Art thou the first man, that euer was borne? Or, wast thou made before the hylles?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>hast thou herde the secrete councell of God, that all wysdome is to litle for ye?<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>What knowest thou, yt we knowe not? What vnderstondest thou, but we can the same?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>With vs are olde and aged men, yee soch as haue lyued longer then thy forefathers.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Dost thou nomore regarde the comforte of God? but thy wicked wordes wil not suffre the.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Why doth thine herte make the so proude? Why stondest thou so greatly in thine owne conceate? Where vnto loke thine eyes,<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>yt thy mynde is so puft vp agaynst God & lettest soch wordes go out of thy 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 shulde be vncleane? what hath he (which is borne of a woman) wherby he might be knowne to be rightuous?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Beholde, he hath founde vnfaithfulnesse amoge his owne sanctes: yee the very heauens are vnclene in his sight.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>How moch more then an abhominable and vyle ma, which dryncketh wickednesse like water?<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will tell the, heare me: I wil shewe the a thinge, that I knowe:<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>which wyse men haue tolde, & hath not bene hyd from their fathers:<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>vnto whom only the londe was geuen, that no straunger shulde come amonge them.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The vngodly despayreth all the dayes of his life, & the nombre of a tyrauntes yeares is vnknowne.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>A fearfull sounde is euer in his eares, & when it is peace, yet feareth he destruccion:<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He beleueth neuer to be delyuered out of darcknesse, the swearde is allwaye before his eyes.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>When he goeth forth to get his lyuinge, he thinketh planely, that the daye of darcknesse is at honde.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Sorow and carefulnesse make him afrayed, & copasse him rounde aboute, like as it were a kinge with his hoost redy to the battayll.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For he hath stretched out his honde agaynst God, & armed himself agaynst ye Allmightie.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiff necke fighteth he agaynst him:<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lykynge.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Therfore shall his dwellynge be in desolate cities, & in houses which no ma inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He shall not be rich, nether shall his substaunce continue, ner encrease vpon earth.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He shal neuer come out of darcknesse, the flame shal drye vp his braunches, with ye blast of the mouth of God shal he be take awaie.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He wil nether applye himself to faithfulnes ner treuth, so sore is he disceaued wt vanite.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He shall perish, afore his tyme be worne out, and his honde shal not be grene.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He shalbe pluckte of as an vntymely grape from ye vyne, and shal let his floure fall, as the olyue doth.<p> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For the congregacion of Ypocrites is vnfrutefull, & the fyre shal consume the houses of soch, as are gredy to receaue giftes.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>He conceaueth trauayle, he beareth myschefe, & his body bryngeth forth disceate.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Coverdale Bible of 1535<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"' 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