Job 15

¹And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

²Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,

³Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?

⁴Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.

⁵For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.

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

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

⁸Hast thou listened in the secret council of God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?

⁹What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?

¹⁰Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.

¹¹Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?

¹²Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?

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

¹⁴What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight: