Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
he reason
Job 13:4,5 But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value…
Job 16:2,3 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all…
Job 26:1-3 But Job answered and said…
Malachi 3:13-15 Your words have been stout against me, said the LORD. Yet you say, …
Matthew 12:36,37 But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they …
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you …
1 Timothy 6:4,5 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes …
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
castest off. Heb. makest void
Job 4:5,6 But now it is come on you, and you faint; it touches you, and you …
Job 6:14 To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but …
Psalm 36:1-3 The transgression of the wicked said within my heart, that there …
Psalm 119:126 It is time for you, LORD, to work: for they have made void your law.
Zephaniah 1:6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have …
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yes, we establish …
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by …
restrainest
Job 5:8 I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call on God?
1 Chronicles 10:13,14 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the …
Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, when they howled …
Amos 6:10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burns him, to bring …
Luke 18:1 And he spoke a parable to them to this end, that men ought always …
prayer. or, speech
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
uttereth. Heb. teacheth
Job 9:22-24 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroys the perfect and …
Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are …
Mark 7:21,22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, …
Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that …
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, …
thou choosest
Psalm 50:19,20 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit…
Psalm 52:2-4 The tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully…
Psalm 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot …
Psalm 120:2,3 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue…
Jeremiah 9:3-5,8 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are …
James 3:5-8 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. …
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
own mouth
Job 9:20 If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am …
Psalm 64:8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that …
Matthew 12:37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall …
Matthew 26:65 Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He has spoken blasphemy; …
Luke 19:22 And he said to him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked …
thine own
Job 33:8-12 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice …
Job 34:5-9 For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment…
Job 35:2,3 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more …
Job 40:8 Will you also cancel my judgment? will you condemn me, that you may …
Job 42:3 Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I …
Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
the secret
Job 11:6 And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom…
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which …
Psalm 25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show …
Proverbs 3:32 For the fraudulent is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is …
Jeremiah 23:18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD, and has perceived and …
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals his secret to …
Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord …
Matthew 13:11,35 He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know …
John 15:15 From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what …
Romans 11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?
Romans 16:25,26 Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, …
1 Corinthians 2:9-11,16 But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have …
thou restrain
Job 12:2 No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
Job 13:5,6 O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom…
What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
thine heart
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …
Mark 7:21,22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, …
Acts 5:3,4 But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to …
Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps …
James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed…
thy eyes
Job 17:2 Are there not mockers with me? and does not my eye continue in their …
Psalm 35:19 Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither …
Proverbs 6:13 He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
turnest
Job 15:25-27 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself …
Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself …
Romans 8:7,8 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject …
and lettest
Job 10:3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise …
Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are …
Psalm 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.
Malachi 3:13 Your words have been stout against me, said the LORD. Yet you say, …
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, …
James 3:2-6 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, …
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
is man
Job 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?
Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Job 25:4-6 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that …
1 Kings 8:46 If they sin against you, (for there is no man that sins not,) and …
2 Chronicles 6:36 If they sin against you, (for there is no man which sins not,) and …
Psalm 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there …
Psalm 51:5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
Ecclesiastes 7:20,29 For there is not a just man on earth, that does good, and sins not…
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born …
Romans 7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: …
Galatians 3:22 But the scripture has concluded all under sin, that the promise by …
Ephesians 2:2,3 Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, …
1 John 1:8-10 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth …
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
How much (Rather, 'How much less (aph kee,) abominable and filthy man,' who, under the influence of sinful propensities, commits sin as greedily as a thirsty man or camel drinks down water.)
abominable
Job 4:19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation …
Job 42:6 Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalm 14:1-3 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, …
Psalm 53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; …
Romans 1:28-30 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God …
Romans 3:9-19 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before …
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, …
drinketh
Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Job 34:7 What man is like Job, who drinks up scorning like water?
Proverbs 19:28 An ungodly witness scorns judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devours …
I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
hear me
Job 5:27 See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.
Job 13:5,6 O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom…
Job 33:1 Why, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and listen to all my words.
Job 34:2 Hear my words, O you wise men; and give ear to me, you that have knowledge.
Job 36:2 Suffer me a little, and I will show you that I have yet to speak …
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
from their
Job 15:10 With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.
Job 8:8 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself …
Psalm 71:18 Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until …
Psalm 78:3-6 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us…
Isaiah 38:19 The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the …
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
dreadful sound. Heb. sound of fears
Job 18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
Genesis 3:9,10 And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where are you…
Leviticus 26:36 And on them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into …
2 Kings 7:6 For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of …
Proverbs 1:26,27 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes…
in prosperity
Job 1:13-19 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and …
Job 20:5-7,22-24 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite …
Leviticus 26:36 And on them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into …
1 Samuel 25:36-38 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, …
Psalm 73:18-20 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into …
Psalm 92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of …
Acts 12:21-23 And on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne, …
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
the destroyer
1 Corinthians 10:10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed …
Revelation 9:11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless …
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
He believeth not
Job 6:11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is my end, that …
Job 9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe …
2 Kings 6:33 And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down …
Isaiah 8:21,22 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it …
Matthew 27:5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, …
and he is
Job 20:24,25 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike …
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
wandereth
Job 30:3,4 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness …
Genesis 4:12 When you till the ground, it shall not from now on yield to you her …
Psalm 59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Psalm 109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek …
Lamentations 5:6,9 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to …
Hebrews 11:37,38 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain …
the day
Job 18:5,6,12,18 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his …
Ecclesiastes 11:8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him …
Joel 2:2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick …
Amos 5:20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very …
Zephaniah 1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day …
Hebrews 10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, …
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
he stretcheth
Leviticus 26:23 And if you will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk …
Psalm 73:9,11 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks …
Isaiah 27:4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me …
Daniel 5:23 But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they …
Malachi 3:13 Your words have been stout against me, said the LORD. Yet you say, …
Acts 9:5 And he said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom …
Acts 12:1,23 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex …
strengtheneth
Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself …
Job 40:9-11 Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him…
Exodus 5:2,3 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to …
Exodus 9:17 As yet exalt you yourself against my people, that you will not let them go?
1 Samuel 4:7-9 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into …
1 Samuel 6:6 Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh …
Psalm 52:7 See, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted …
Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …
Isaiah 10:12-14 Why it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole …
Isaiah 41:4-7 Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? …
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
he covereth
Job 17:10 But as for you all, do you return, and come now: for I cannot find …
Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: you are waxen fat, you are grown …
Psalm 17:10 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalm 73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Psalm 78:31 The wrath of God came on them, and slew the fattest of them, and …
Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and …
Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the …
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
desolate
Job 3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places …
Job 18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone …
Isaiah 5:8-10 Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till …
Micah 7:18 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes by the …
which are ready
Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will …
Jeremiah 26:18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, …
Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an …
Micah 3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem …
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
neither shall
Job 20:22-28 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every …
Job 22:15-20 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden…
Job 27:16,17 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay…
Psalm 49:16,17 Be not you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house …
Luke 12:19-21 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …
Luke 16:2,19-22 And he called him, and said to him, How is it that I hear this of …
James 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it wither …
James 5:1-3 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall …
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
depart
Job 15:22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited …
Job 10:21,22 Before I go from where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness …
Job 18:5,6,18 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his …
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: …
Matthew 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take …
2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; …
Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, …
the flame
Job 20:26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown …
Isaiah 30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; …
Ezekiel 15:4-7 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devours both …
Ezekiel 20:47,48 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus …
Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also to them on the left hand, Depart from me, …
Mark 9:43-49 And if your hand offend you, cut it off: it is better for you to …
2 Thessalonians 1:8,9 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that …
by the breath
Job 4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils …
Isaiah 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with …
Revelation 19:15 And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite …
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
not him
Job 12:16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Isaiah 44:20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he …
Galatians 6:3,7 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he …
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things …
trust
Psalm 62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches …
Isaiah 59:4 None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, …
Jonah 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
for vanity
Job 4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Proverbs 22:8 He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.
Isaiah 17:10,11 Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not …
Hosea 8:7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it …
Galatians 6:8 For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption…
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
accomplished. or, cut off
Job 22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood:
Psalm 55:23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: …
Ecclesiastes 7:17 Be not over much wicked, neither be you foolish: why should you die …
and his branch
Job 8:16-19 He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden…
Job 14:7-9 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout …
Job 18:16,17 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off…
Psalm 52:5-8 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, …
Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the …
Ezekiel 17:8-10 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring …
Hosea 9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: …
Hosea 14:5-7 I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast …
John 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; …
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
the congregation
Job 8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
Job 20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when …
Job 36:13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.
Isaiah 33:14,15 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. …
Matthew 24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: …
the tabernacles
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness …
Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are …
Job 22:5-9 Is not your wickedness great? and your iniquities infinite…
Job 29:12-17 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and …
1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, …
1 Samuel 12:3 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before …
Micah 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright …
Amos 5:11,12 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take …
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
conceive
Psalm 7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and …
Isaiah 59:4,5 None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, …
Hosea 10:13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten …
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that …
James 1:15 Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when …
vanity. or, iniquity
