kjv - Job:15-17

kjv@Job:15:1 @ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

kjv@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

kjv@Job:15:3 @ Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

kjv@Job:15:4 @ Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

kjv@Job:15:5 @ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

kjv@Job:15:6 @ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

kjv@Job:15:7 @ Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

kjv@Job:15:8 @ Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

kjv@Job:15:9 @ What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

kjv@Job:15:10 @ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

kjv@Job:15:11 @ Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

kjv@Job:15:12 @ Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

kjv@Job:15:13 @ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

kjv@Job:15:14 @ What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

kjv@Job:15:15 @ Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

kjv@Job:15:16 @ How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

kjv@Job:15:17 @ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

kjv@Job:15:18 @ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

kjv@Job:15:19 @ Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

kjv@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

kjv@Job:15:21 @ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

kjv@Job:15:22 @ He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

kjv@Job:15:23 @ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

kjv@Job:15:24 @ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

kjv@Job:15:25 @ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

kjv@Job:15:26 @ He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

kjv@Job:15:27 @ Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

kjv@Job:15:28 @ And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

kjv@Job:15:29 @ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

kjv@Job:15:30 @ 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.

kjv@Job:15:31 @ Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

kjv@Job:15:32 @ It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

kjv@Job:15:33 @ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

kjv@Job:15:34 @ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

kjv@Job:15:35 @ They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

kjv@Job:16:1 @ Then Job answered and said,

kjv@Job:16:2 @ I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

kjv@Job:16:3 @ Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

kjv@Job:16:4 @ I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

kjv@Job:16:5 @ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

kjv@Job:16:6 @ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

kjv@Job:16:7 @ But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

kjv@Job:16:8 @ And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

kjv@Job:16:9 @ He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

kjv@Job:16:10 @ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

kjv@Job:16:11 @ God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

kjv@Job:16:12 @ I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

kjv@Job:16:13 @ His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

kjv@Job:16:14 @ He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

kjv@Job:16:15 @ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

kjv@Job:16:16 @ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

kjv@Job:16:17 @ Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

kjv@Job:16:18 @ O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

kjv@Job:16:19 @ Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

kjv@Job:16:20 @ My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

kjv@Job:16:21 @ O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

kjv@Job:16:22 @ When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

kjv@Job:17:1 @ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

kjv@Job:17:2 @ Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

kjv@Job:17:3 @ Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

kjv@Job:17:4 @ For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

kjv@Job:17:5 @ He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

kjv@Job:17:6 @ He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

kjv@Job:17:7 @ Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

kjv@Job:17:8 @ Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

kjv@Job:17:9 @ The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

kjv@Job:17:10 @ But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

kjv@Job:17:11 @ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

kjv@Job:17:12 @ They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

kjv@Job:17:13 @ If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

kjv@Job:17:14 @ I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

kjv@Job:17:15 @ And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

kjv@Job:17:16 @ They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.

kjv@Job:18:1 @ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,