Thematic Bible
Job 15:1 (show verse)
Then Eliphaz from Teman responded:
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Job 15:2 (show verse)
"Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east?
Job 15:3 (show verse)
Should he engage in unprofitable argument, or give a speech that benefits no one?
Job 15:4 (show verse)
Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God.
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Job 15:5 (show verse)
Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty.
Job 15:6 (show verse)
Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you."
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Job 15:7 (show verse)
"Were you the first personto be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made?
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Job 15:8 (show verse)
Have you listened in on God's secret council? Have you limited wisdom only to yourself?
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Job 15:9 (show verse)
What do you know that we don't know, or that you understand and that isn't clear to us?
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Job 15:10 (show verse)
"We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far older than your father.
Job 15:11 (show verse)
Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you?
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Job 15:12 (show verse)
Why have your emotions carried you away? And why do your eyes flash
Job 15:13 (show verse)
that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this?
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Job 15:14 (show verse)
"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?
Job 15:15 (show verse)
Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,
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Job 15:16 (show verse)
then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"
Job 15:17 (show verse)
"I'll tell you what, listen to me! Let me relate what I've seen,
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Job 15:18 (show verse)
which is what wise men have explained, who didn't withhold anything from their ancestors.
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Job 15:19 (show verse)
To them alone was the land given, when no invader passed through their midst.
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Job 15:20 (show verse)
"The wicked person writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless.
Job 15:21 (show verse)
Terrifying sounds ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack him.
Conscience » Guilty
Conscience » Guilty » -ezra
unholy Fear » Described as » Overwhelming
Guilty conscience » -ezra
Happiness » Of the wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness of the The Wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Opposition » Who opposes the lord
Wicked people » Prosperity of
Wicked people » Temporal punishment of
Conscience » Guilty » -ezra
unholy Fear » Described as » Overwhelming
Guilty conscience » -ezra
Happiness » Of the wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Happiness of the The Wicked » Often interrupted by judgments
Opposition » Who opposes the lord
Wicked people » Prosperity of
Wicked people » Temporal punishment of
Job 15:22 (show verse)
He does not believe he will escape darkness; he is destined for the sword.
Job 15:23 (show verse)
He wanders around for food where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near.
Job 15:24 (show verse)
Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack.
Job 15:25 (show verse)
"For he has raised his fist against God, defying the Almighty.
Job 15:26 (show verse)
He defiantly ran against him carrying his thick, reinforced shield.
Job 15:27 (show verse)
Though he covered his face with fat, and is grossly overweight at the waist,
Job 15:28 (show verse)
He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.
Job 15:29 (show verse)
"He won't become rich and his wealth won't last; he won't expand his holdings to cover the land.
Job 15:30 (show verse)
He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth.
Job 15:31 (show verse)
Let him not trust in a worthless speech. He leads only himself astray, for emptiness will be his reward.
Following » The reward for following vanity
Profit and loss » Loss » The wages of sin do not profit
Sin » Unpardonable, the » Wages of
Trust » What not to trust in
Trust » Of the wicked » Is in vanity
Vanity » The reward for following vanity
Vanity » They who trust in, rewarded with
Wicked people » Temporal punishment of
Profit and loss » Loss » The wages of sin do not profit
Sin » Unpardonable, the » Wages of
Trust » What not to trust in
Trust » Of the wicked » Is in vanity
Vanity » The reward for following vanity
Vanity » They who trust in, rewarded with
Wicked people » Temporal punishment of
Job 15:32 (show verse)
This will be accomplished before his time; his branches won't grow luxuriant.
Job 15:33 (show verse)
"He is like a vine that drops its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that loses its blossoms.
Job 15:34 (show verse)
For the company of the godless is desolation, and fire consumes the tents of those who bribe.
Job 15:35 (show verse)
For they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb is pregnant with deception."