Job 15

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,Cross-references: Job 2:11 · Job 4:1 · Job 22:1 · Job 42:7 · Job 42:9

2“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?Cross-references: Job 6:26 · Job 8:2 · Job 11:2 · Job 13:2 · Hos 12:1 · James 3:13

3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?Cross-references: Job 13:4 · Job 16:2 · Job 26:1 · Mal 3:13 · Matt 12:36 · Col 4:6 · +1 more

4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.Cross-references: 1Chr 10:13 · Job 4:5 · Job 5:8 · Job 6:14 · Job 27:10 · Ps 36:1 · +7 more

5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.Cross-references: Job 5:13 · Job 9:22 · Job 12:6 · Ps 50:19 · Ps 52:2 · Ps 64:3 · +7 more

6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.Cross-references: Job 9:20 · Job 33:8 · Job 34:5 · Job 35:2 · Job 40:8 · Job 42:3 · +4 more

7“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?Cross-references: Gen 4:1 · Job 12:12 · Job 15:10 · Job 38:4 · Ps 90:2 · Prov 8:22

8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?Cross-references: Deut 29:29 · Job 11:6 · Job 12:2 · Job 13:5 · Job 29:4 · Ps 25:14 · +11 more

9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?Cross-references: Job 12:3 · Job 13:2 · Job 26:3 · 2Cor 10:7 · 2Cor 11:5 · 2Cor 11:21

10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than your father.Cross-references: Deut 32:7 · Job 8:8 · Job 12:12 · Job 12:20 · Job 32:6 · Prov 16:31

11Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?Cross-references: 1Ki 22:24 · Job 5:8 · Job 11:13 · Job 13:2 · Job 15:8 · Job 36:16 · +2 more

12Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,Cross-references: Job 11:13 · Job 17:2 · Ps 35:19 · Prov 6:13 · Eccl 11:9 · Mark 7:21 · +3 more

13that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?Cross-references: Job 9:4 · Job 10:3 · Job 12:6 · Job 15:25 · Ps 34:13 · Mal 3:13 · +3 more

14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?Cross-references: 1Ki 8:46 · 2Chr 6:36 · Job 9:2 · Job 14:4 · Job 25:4 · Ps 14:3 · +9 more

15Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;Cross-references: Job 4:18 · Job 5:1 · Job 25:5 · Isa 6:2

16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!Cross-references: Job 4:19 · Job 20:12 · Job 34:7 · Job 42:6 · Ps 14:1 · Ps 53:3 · +4 more

17“I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declareCross-references: Job 5:27 · Job 13:5 · Job 33:1 · Job 34:2 · Job 36:2

18(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;Cross-references: Job 8:8 · Job 15:10 · Ps 71:18 · Ps 78:3 · Isa 38:19

19to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):Cross-references: Gen 10:25 · Gen 10:32 · Deut 32:8 · Joel 3:17

20the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.Cross-references: Job 24:1 · Job 27:13 · Ps 90:3 · Ps 90:12 · Eccl 9:3 · Luke 12:19 · +2 more

21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.Cross-references: Gen 3:9 · Lev 26:36 · 1Sam 25:36 · 2Ki 7:6 · Job 1:13 · Job 18:11 · +10 more

22He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.Cross-references: 2Ki 6:33 · Job 6:11 · Job 9:16 · Job 19:29 · Job 20:24 · Job 27:14 · +2 more

23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.Cross-references: Gen 4:12 · Job 18:5 · Job 18:12 · Job 18:18 · Job 30:3 · Ps 59:15 · +9 more

24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.Cross-references: Job 6:2 · Ps 119:143 · Prov 1:27 · Prov 6:11 · Prov 24:34 · Isa 13:3 · +2 more

25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty,Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · Ex 9:17 · Lev 26:23 · 1Sam 4:7 · 1Sam 6:6 · Job 9:4 · +14 more

26he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers,Cross-references: Gen 49:8 · 2Chr 28:22 · 2Chr 32:13 · Job 16:12 · Ps 18:40

27because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · Job 17:10 · Ps 17:10 · Ps 73:7 · Ps 78:31 · Isa 6:10 · +1 more

28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.Cross-references: Job 3:14 · Job 18:15 · Isa 5:8 · Jer 9:11 · Jer 26:18 · Jer 51:37 · +2 more

29He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth.Cross-references: Job 20:22 · Job 22:15 · Job 27:16 · Ps 49:16 · Luke 12:19 · Luke 16:2 · +3 more

30He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.Cross-references: Job 4:9 · Job 5:14 · Job 10:21 · Job 15:22 · Job 18:5 · Job 18:18 · +14 more

31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward.Cross-references: Job 4:8 · Job 12:16 · Ps 62:10 · Prov 22:8 · Isa 17:10 · Isa 44:20 · +6 more

32It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green.Cross-references: Job 8:16 · Job 14:7 · Job 18:16 · Job 22:16 · Ps 52:5 · Ps 55:23 · +6 more

33He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.Cross-references: Deut 28:39 · Isa 33:9 · Rev 6:13

34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.Cross-references: 1Sam 8:3 · 1Sam 12:3 · Job 8:13 · Job 8:22 · Job 11:14 · Job 12:6 · +9 more

35They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”Cross-references: Ps 7:14 · Isa 59:4 · Hos 10:13 · Gal 6:7 · James 1:15