Lockman - Bible questions and answers

		Job 15:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered [Job] and said,
		Job 15:2 "Should a wise man [such as you] utter such windy and vain knowledge [as we have just heard] And fill himself with the east wind [of withering, parching, and violent accusations]?
		Job 15:3 "Should he rebuke and argue with useless talk? Or with words in which there is no benefit?
		Job 15:4 "Indeed, you are doing away with fear, And you are diminishing meditation before God.
		Job 15:5 "For your guilt teaches your mouth, And you choose [to speak] the language of the crafty and cunning.
		Job 15:6 "Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.
		Job 15:7 ¶ "Were you the first man to be born [the original wise man], Or were you created before the hills?
		Job 15:8 "Do you hear the secret counsel of God, And do you limit [the possession of] wisdom to yourself?
		Job 15:9 "What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not equally clear to us?
		Job 15:10 "Among us are both the gray-haired and the aged, Older than your father.
		Job 15:11 "Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you, [Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective?
		Job 15:12 "Why does your heart carry you away [allowing you to be controlled by emotion]? And why do your eyes flash [in anger or contempt],
		Job 15:13 That you should turn your spirit against God And let such words [as you have spoken] go out of your mouth?
		Job 15:14 "What is man, that he should be pure and clean, Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?
		Job 15:15 "Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones (angels); Indeed, the heavens are not pure in His sight--
		Job 15:16 How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt, Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!
		Job 15:17 ¶ "I will tell you, listen to me; And what I have seen I will also declare;
		Job 15:18 What wise men have [freely] told, And have not hidden [anything passed on to them] from their fathers,
		Job 15:19 To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them [corrupting the truth].
		Job 15:20 "The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, And numbered are the years stored up for him, the ruthless one.
		Job 15:21 "A [dreadful] sound of terrors is in his ears; While at peace and in a time of prosperity the destroyer comes upon him [the tent of the robber is not at peace].
		Job 15:22 "He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered], And he is destined for the sword [of God's vengeance].
		Job 15:23 "He wanders about for food, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.
		Job 15:24 "Distress and anxiety terrify him, They overpower him like a king ready for battle.
		Job 15:25 "Because he has stretched out his hand against God And behaves arrogantly against the Almighty,
		Job 15:26 Running and charging headlong against Him With his ornamented and massive shield;
		Job 15:27 For he has covered his face with his fat, Adding layers of fat to his thighs [giving himself up to pleasures],
		Job 15:28 And he has lived in desolate [God-forsaken] cities, In houses which no one should inhabit, Which were destined to become heaps [of ruins];
		Job 15:29 He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure; And his grain will not bend to the earth nor his possessions be extended on the earth.
		Job 15:30 "He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster]; The flame [of God's wrath] will wither his branch, And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.
		Job 15:31 "Let him not trust in vanity (emptiness, futility) and be led astray; For emptiness will be his reward [for such living].
		Job 15:32 "It will be fulfilled while he still lives, And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].
		Job 15:33 "He will fail to bring his grapes to maturity [leaving them to wither unnourished] on the vine, And will cast off blossoms [and fail to bring forth fruit] like the olive tree.
		Job 15:34 "For the company of the godless is barren, And fire consumes the tents of bribery (wrong and injustice).
		Job 15:35 "They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness, And their inmost soul prepares deceit and fraud."

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