{"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/asv/job/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T17:47:44.331Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","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 make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I will show thee, hear thou 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":"Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"He wandereth abroad for bread,'saying , Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He runneth upon him with a'stiff neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended 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 God's mouth shall he go away."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; 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-tree."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 15 (ASV)","markdown":"[Job 15](https://primebible.com/asv/job/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/job/15 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}