Job 15

¹Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

²Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

³Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

⁴Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.

⁵For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

⁶Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

⁷Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

⁸Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

⁹What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

¹⁰With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

¹¹Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

¹²Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

¹³That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

¹⁴What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: