Job 15:1-16

Eliphaz Reprimands Job

15¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ² Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind, ³ Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good? ⁴ Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God. ⁵ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty. ⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee. ⁷ Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills? ⁸ Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself? ⁹ What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us? ¹⁰ Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father. ¹¹ Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee? ¹² Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink? ¹³ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth? ¹⁴ What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ¹⁵ Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight: ¹⁶ How much less the abominable and corrupt,—man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!