Job 15:1-21 ▼

1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,

2 Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?

3 Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?

4 Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.

5 For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.

6 Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.

7 Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?

8 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?

9 What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?

10 With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.

11 Seeme the consolations of God smal vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?

12 Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,

13 That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?

15 Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.

16 How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?

17 I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:

18 Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:

19 To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them.

20 The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.

21 A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.