Job 15

¹And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

²Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?

³Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?

⁴Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

⁵For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

⁶It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

⁷Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

⁸Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

⁹What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

¹⁰With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

¹¹Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

¹²Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

¹³So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

¹⁴What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?