Job 15

¹And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:

²Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?

³Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.

⁴As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.

⁵For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.

⁶Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.

⁷Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills?

⁸Hast thou heard God’s counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?

⁹What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?

¹⁰There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.

¹¹Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.

¹²Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things?

¹³Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth?

¹⁴What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?

¹⁵Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.