{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T11:13:37.472Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":15,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":14,"nextChapter":16,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":35},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Your own mouth comdemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 15 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 15](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/15 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}