{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "job", "chapter": 15 }, "data": { "n": 15, "bookSlug": "job", "bookCode": "JOB", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "JOB-15:1", "verseRef": "Job.15.1", "text": "Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said," },{ "n": 2, "refId": "JOB-15:2", "verseRef": "Job.15.2", "text": "Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "JOB-15:3", "verseRef": "Job.15.3", "text": "Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JOB-15:4", "verseRef": "Job.15.4", "text": "Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JOB-15:5", "verseRef": "Job.15.5", "text": "For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JOB-15:6", "verseRef": "Job.15.6", "text": "Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JOB-15:7", "verseRef": "Job.15.7", "text": "Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?" },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JOB-15:8", "verseRef": "Job.15.8", "text": "Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?" },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JOB-15:9", "verseRef": "Job.15.9", "text": "What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JOB-15:10", "verseRef": "Job.15.10", "text": "With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JOB-15:11", "verseRef": "Job.15.11", "text": "Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JOB-15:12", "verseRef": "Job.15.12", "text": "Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash," },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JOB-15:13", "verseRef": "Job.15.13", "text": "That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JOB-15:14", "verseRef": "Job.15.14", "text": "What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JOB-15:15", "verseRef": "Job.15.15", "text": "Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JOB-15:16", "verseRef": "Job.15.16", "text": "How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JOB-15:17", "verseRef": "Job.15.17", "text": "I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JOB-15:18", "verseRef": "Job.15.18", "text": "(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JOB-15:19", "verseRef": "Job.15.19", "text": "Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JOB-15:20", "verseRef": "Job.15.20", "text": "The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JOB-15:21", "verseRef": "Job.15.21", "text": "A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JOB-15:22", "verseRef": "Job.15.22", "text": "He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JOB-15:23", "verseRef": "Job.15.23", "text": "He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JOB-15:24", "verseRef": "Job.15.24", "text": "Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JOB-15:25", "verseRef": "Job.15.25", "text": "Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;" },{ "n": 26, "refId": "JOB-15:26", "verseRef": "Job.15.26", "text": "He runneth upon him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;" },{ "n": 27, "refId": "JOB-15:27", "verseRef": "Job.15.27", "text": "Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "JOB-15:28", "verseRef": "Job.15.28", "text": "And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;" },{ "n": 29, "refId": "JOB-15:29", "verseRef": "Job.15.29", "text": "He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "JOB-15:30", "verseRef": "Job.15.30", "text": "He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God`s] mouth shall he go away." },{ "n": 31, "refId": "JOB-15:31", "verseRef": "Job.15.31", "text": "Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "JOB-15:32", "verseRef": "Job.15.32", "text": "It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "JOB-15:33", "verseRef": "Job.15.33", "text": "He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "JOB-15:34", "verseRef": "Job.15.34", "text": "For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "JOB-15:35", "verseRef": "Job.15.35", "text": "They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/15", "book": "/v1/library/books/job/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }