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| The Book of Job 15 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 15:1 | And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:2 | Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:3 | Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:4 | Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:5 | For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:6 | It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:7 | Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:8 | Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:9 | What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:10 | With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:11 | Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:12 | Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:13 | So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:14 | What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:15 | Truly, he puts no faith in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:16 | How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water! | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:17 | Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:18 | (The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:19 | For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:) | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:20 | The evil man is in pain all his days, and the number of the years stored up for the cruel is small. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:21 | A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:22 | He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:23 | He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:24 | He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:25 | Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:26 | Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:27 | Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:28 | And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:29 | He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:30 | He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:31 | Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:32 | His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:33 | He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:34 | For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 15:35 | Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves. | |||||||||||||||
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