Job 15

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

and fill himself with the east wind?

or with speeches with which he can do no good?

and hinder devotion before God.

and you choose the language of the crafty.

Yes, your own lips testify against you.

Or were you brought out before the hills?

Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

What do you understand which is not in us?

much elder than your father.

even the word that is gentle toward you?

Why do your eyes flash,

and let such words go out of your mouth?

What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

a man who drinks iniquity like water!

that which I have seen I will declare

and have not hidden it;

and no stranger passed among them):

even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

He is waited for by the sword.

He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,

with the thick shields of his bucklers,

and gathered fat on his thighs.

which were ready to become heaps.

neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.

He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

for emptiness will be his reward.

His branch will not be green.

and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.

and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

Their heart prepares deceit.”