Job 15:7-35 ▼

7 Were you born as the first man? And were you formed before the face of the hills?

8 Do you listen in the council of God, and reduce to yourself wisdom?

9 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not with us?

10 Even the gray-haired and the aged are with us—greater than your father in days.

11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, or a word in gentleness to you?

12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

13 that you should turn your spirit against God, and bring out such words out of your mouth?

14 What is man that he should be pure, or that he should be righteous, one born of woman?

15 Behold, He does not trust in His holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in His eyes;

16 also surely the abominable and corrupt one is a man drinking iniquity like water!

17 I will tell you! Listen to me, and this that I have seen I will recount—

18 what the wise have brought forward and have not concealed from their fathers,

19 to whom alone the land was given, and a stranger did not pass over in their midst.

20 All the days of the wicked, he is writhing, and the number of years is hidden for the ruthless.

21 The voice of dread is in his ears; in prosperity, the destroyer comes upon him.

22 He is not sure to return from darkness, and he is watched over unto the sword.

23 He is is wandering for bread for vultures, knowing that a day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24 Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready for the attack.

25 For he stretched out his hand against God, and against Shaddai he sought to prevail,

26 running against Him with the neck, with thickness of the bosses of his shields.

27 For he has covered his face with his fat, and made thick fat upon his loin.

28 And he dwells in desolate cities, houses in which they do not dwell, which are ready to be heaps.

29 He will not be rich, and his wealth will not stand, nor will his possessions stretch out over the earth.

30 He will not turn aside from darkness; the flame will dry out his shoot, and he will turn aside at the breath of His mouth.

31 Do not let him trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his recompense.

32 Not in his day will it be fulfilled, and his branch will not be green.

33 He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine, and he will cast off his blossom like an olive tree.

34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.

35 They conceive trouble and give birth to inquity, and their belly prepares deceit.”