Job 15 Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety

 Job 15

Eliphaz Accuses Job of Impiety

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

2 Will a wise man answer with windy knowledge? And fill his belly with the east wind?

3 Do you argue with words that are worthless, and with arguments that do not profit?

4 But you have made fear vain, and have diminished your prayers before God.

5 For your mouth has declared your iniquity, and you have chosen the tongue of the crafty.

6 Your mouth condemns you, and not I; your lips testify against you.

7 Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

8 Or have you heard the secret counsel of God, and have limited wisdom to yourself?

9 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us? 

10 There are also among us who are gray-haired and aged, older than your father. 

11 Are the consolations of God too small for you? Or is there something hidden from you?

 12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do you blink your eyes, 

13 That you turn your spirit away from God, and let such words come out of your mouth? 

14 What is man, that he should be pure? Or what is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 

15 Behold, he will not put his trust in his saints, and the heavens are not pure in his sight. 

16 How much more abominable and corrupt is man, who drinks iniquity like water?