15:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, 15:2 Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge and fill himself with the east wind? 15:3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
15:4 Yes, you do away with fear and hinder devotion before God.
15:5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth. And you choose the tongue of the crafty. 15:6 Your own mouth condemns you and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
15:7 Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills? 15:8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? 15:9 What do you know, that we do not know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
15:10 With us are both the gray-haired and the very aged men, much older than your father.
15:11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you? 15:12Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash, 15:13 that against God you turn your spirit and let words go out of your mouth?
15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15:15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight. 15:16How much less one who is abominable and morally-corrupt, a man who drinks unrighteousness like water!
15:17 I will show you. Hear me and what I have seen I will declare, 15:18 which wise men have told from their fathers and have not hid it, 15:19 to whom alone the land was given and no stranger passed among them: 15:20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. 15:21 Sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. 15:22 He does not believe that he will return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword. 15:23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 15:24 Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle. 15:25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.
15:26 He runs upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers, 15:27 because he has covered his face with his fatness and gathered fat upon his loins. 15:28 And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. 15:29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth. 15:30 He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his offshoots and by the breath of God's mouth he will go away.
15:31 Let him not trust in vanity, making himself go-astray. For vanity will be his recompense. 15:32 It will be accomplished before his time and his branch will not be green. 15:33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine and will cast off his flower as the olive tree.
15:34 For the company of the hypocrites will be barren and fire will consume the tents of bribery. 15:35They conceive evil and bring forth wickedness and their heart prepares deceit.