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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 King James 2000</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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">King James 2000</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">King James 2000</div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Eliphaz Answers Again</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="black">Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="black">Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="black">Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="black">Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="black">For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="black">Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify against you.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="black">Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="black">Have you heard the council of God? and do you limit wisdom to yourself?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="black">What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="black">With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much older than your father.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="black">Are the consolations of God too small for you? or the word that deals gently with you?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="black">Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="black">That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="black">What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="black">Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="black">How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="black">I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="black">Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="black">Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="black">The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the oppressor.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="black">A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="black">He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="black">He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="black">Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="black">For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="black">He runs stubbornly against him, with his heavily embossed shield.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="black">Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes heavy fat on his waist.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="black">And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="black">He shall not be rich, neither shall his wealth continue, neither shall he overspread the earth with it.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="black">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.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="black">Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for futility shall be his reward.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="black">It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="black">He shall shake off his unripe grapes like the vine, and shall cast off his blossom like the olive.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="black">For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/job/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span><span class="black">They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their heart prepares deceit.</span></p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The King James 2000 Bible, copyright © Doctor of Theology Robert A. 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