The Book of Job 15 |
The Douay-Rheims Version Online Bible (DRV) |
Job 15:1 | And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said: |
Job 15:2 | Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat? |
Job 15:3 | Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee. |
Job 15:4 | As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God. |
Job 15:5 | For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers. |
Job 15:6 | Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee. |
Job 15:7 | Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills ? |
Job 15:8 | Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee? |
Job 15:9 | What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not? |
Job 15:10 | There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers. |
Job 15:11 | Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this. |
Job 15:12 | Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things ? |
Job 15:13 | Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth ? |
Job 15:14 | What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just? |
Job 15:15 | Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight. |
Job 15:16 | How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water? |
Job 15:17 | I will shew thee, hear me : and I mill tell thee what I have seen. |
Job 15:18 | Wise men confess and hide not their fathers. |
Job 15:19 | To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed among them. |
Job 15:20 | The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain. |
Job 15:21 | The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason. |
Job 15:22 | He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side. |
Job 15:23 | When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. |
Job 15:24 | Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle. |
Job 15:25 | For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty. |
Job 15:26 | He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck. |
Job 15:27 | Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides. |
Job 15:28 | He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps. |
Job 15:29 | He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth. |
Job 15:30 | He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own month. |
Job 15:31 | He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price. |
Job 15:32 | Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away. |
Job 15:33 | He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower. |
Job 15:34 | For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes. |
Job 15:35 | He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth deceits. |