rsv Job:15
rsv@Job:15:1 @ Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:
rsv@Job:15:2 @ "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
rsv@Job:15:3 @ Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
rsv@Job:15:4 @ But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.
rsv@Job:15:5 @ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
rsv@Job:15:6 @ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
rsv@Job:15:7 @ "Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
rsv@Job:15:8 @ Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself+?
rsv@Job:15:9 @ What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
rsv@Job:15:10 @ Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
rsv@Job:15:11 @ Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
rsv@Job:15:12 @ Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
rsv@Job:15:13 @ that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
rsv@Job:15:14 @ What is man, that he can be clean? Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
rsv@Job:15:15 @ Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
rsv@Job:15:16 @ how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
rsv@Job:15:17 @ "I will show you, hear me; and what I have seen I will declare
rsv@Job:15:18 @ (what wise men have told, and their fathers have not hidden,
rsv@Job:15:19 @ to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
rsv@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
rsv@Job:15:21 @ Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
rsv@Job:15:22 @ He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is destined for the sword.
rsv@Job:15:23 @ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ` wanders abroad for bread, saying, "Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
rsv@Job:15:24 @ distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king prepared for battle.
rsv@Job:15:25 @ Because he has stretched forth his hand against God, and bids defiance to the Almighty,
rsv@Job:15:26 @ running stubbornly against him with a thick-bossed shield;
rsv@Job:15:27 @ because he has covered his face with his fat, and gathered fat upon his loins,
rsv@Job:15:28 @ and has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps of ruins;
rsv@Job:15:29 @ he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will he strike root in the earth;
rsv@Job:15:30 @ he will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and his blossom will be swept away by the wind.
rsv@Job:15:31 @ Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness will be his recompense.
rsv@Job:15:32 @ It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
rsv@Job:15:33 @ He will shake off his unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree.
rsv@Job:15:34 @ For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
rsv@Job:15:35 @ They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit."
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