Job 15
Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,
And fill himself with the east wind?
Or with words which are not profitable?
And hinder meditation before God.
And you choose the language of the crafty.
And your own lips testify against you.
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
And limit wisdom to yourself?
What do you understand that we do not?
Older than your father.
Even the word spoken gently with you?
And why do your eyes flash,
And allow such words to go out of your mouth?
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
And the heavens are not pure in His sight;
Man, who drinks iniquity like water!
And what I have seen I will also declare;
And have not concealed from their fathers,
And no alien passed among them.
And numbered are the years stored up for the ruthless.
While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.
And he is destined for the sword.
He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.
They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,
And conducts himself arrogantly against the Almighty.
With his massive shield.
And made his thighs heavy with flesh.
In houses no one would inhabit,
Which are destined to become ruins.
And his grain will not bend down to the ground.
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
For emptiness will be his reward.
And his palm branch will not be green.
And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.
And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt.
And their mind prepares deception.”