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15:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
15:2  “Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and should he fill his stomach with the east wind?
15:3  Should he argue in talk that is not profitable or in words with which he cannot do good?
15:4  “What is worse, you yourself are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation before God.
15:5  For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
15:6  Your mouth condemns you, and not I; and your lips testify against you.
15:7  “Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth before the hills?
15:8  Have you listened in God’s confidential discussion? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
15:9  What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
15:10  Both the gray-haired and the old are among us— those older than your father.
15:11  “Are the consolations of God too small for you, a word spoken gently with you?
15:12  Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,
15:13  that you turn your spirit against God, and you let such words go out of your mouth?
15:14  “What is a human being, that he can be clean, or that one born of a woman can be righteous?
15:15  Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes.
15:16  How much less he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.
15:17  “I will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell—
15:18  what wise men have told, and they have not hidden that which is from their ancestors,
15:19  to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.
15:20  “All of the wicked one’s days he is writhing, even through the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.
15:21  Sounds of terror are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come against him.
15:22  He cannot trust that he will return from darkness, and he himself is destined for the sword.
15:23  “He is wandering for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at hand.
15:24  Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle.
15:25  Because he stretched out his hand against God, and he was arrogant to Shaddai;
15:26  he stubbornly runs against him with his thick-bossed shield.
15:27  “Because he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon his loins,
15:28  he will dwell in desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.
15:29  He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.
15:30  “He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.
15:31  Let him not trust in emptiness—he will be deceiving himself— for worthlessness will be his recompense.
15:32  It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.
15:33  “He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;
15:34  for the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.
15:35  They conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit.”