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    Job 15

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    Eliphaz's wicked man charges at the Almighty with a thick, studded shield, then receives a careful account of his waistline before the ruin begins.

    Eliphaz questions Job’s wisdomvv. 1–16

    Eliphaz begins by treating Job’s speech as wind, asking whether a wise man should “fill his belly with the hot east wind.” The rebuke grows sharper: Job’s own mouth is made prosecutor, witness, and evidence. Eliphaz then piles up questions that leave Job no room to be ancient, all-knowing, or privately admitted to the council of God. Gray-haired men stand behind him, and even the heavens fail his standard of purity; humanity, by comparison, drinks injustice like water.

    The wicked man’s prosperity turns to terrorvv. 17–35

    “Listen to me,” says Eliphaz, and out comes a portrait handed down by wise men and their fathers. The wicked man lives with terror in his ears, even while prosperity is still about him; the destroyer arrives at precisely that inconvenient moment. He rushes at God with a shield, enjoys a conspicuous face and waistline, and then is deposited among ruined cities. Wealth shrinks, darkness closes in, vines shed their grapes, olives lose their blossoms, and the godless company ends with trouble conceived and evil born.

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    1. Job 15:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

    2. Job 15:2“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

    3. Job 15:3Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?

    4. Job 15:4But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.

    5. Job 15:5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

    6. Job 15:6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.

    7. Job 15:7Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

    8. Job 15:8Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself?

    9. Job 15:9What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

    10. Job 15:10Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.

    11. Job 15:11Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?

    12. Job 15:12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

    13. Job 15:13so that you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?

    14. Job 15:14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

    15. Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,

    16. Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

    17. Job 15:17Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen,

    18. Job 15:18what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

    19. Job 15:19to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

    20. Job 15:20A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

    21. Job 15:21Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.

    22. Job 15:22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

    23. Job 15:23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

    24. Job 15:24Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack.

    25. Job 15:25For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,

    26. Job 15:26rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.

    27. Job 15:27Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,

    28. Job 15:28he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.

    29. Job 15:29He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land.

    30. Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.

    31. Job 15:31Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.

    32. Job 15:32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

    33. Job 15:33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

    34. Job 15:34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

    35. Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”

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    • 14Ecclesiastes 7:20Surely there is no righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
    • 15Job 4:18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
    • 15Job 25:5If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight,
    • 14Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
    • 21Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
    • 6Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
    • 35Psalms 7:14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
    • 7Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
    • 8Romans 11:34“Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
    • 9Job 13:2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
    • 14Proverbs 20:9Who can say, “I have kept my heart pure; I am cleansed from my sin”?
    • 211 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
    • 27Psalms 17:10They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
    • 31Isaiah 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
    • 32Ecclesiastes 7:17Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be a fool. Why should you die before your time?
    • 6Matthew 12:37For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

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