Job 15

¹And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: —

²Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?

³To reason with a word not useful? And speeches — no profit in them?

⁴Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

⁵For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

⁶Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.

⁷The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

⁸Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?

⁹What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou — and it is not with us?

¹⁰Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us — Greater than thy father [in] days.

¹¹Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word [is] with thee,

¹²What — doth thine heart take thee away? And what — are thine eyes high?

¹³For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

¹⁴What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

¹⁵Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.