{"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/dbt/job/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:24:17.288Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":15,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":14,"nextChapter":16,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":35},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou which is not in us?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"What is man, that he should be pure? 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, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"He wandereth abroad for bread, where may it be? 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 for the battle."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He runneth against him, with outstretched neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his flanks."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon 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 him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 15 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 15](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/15 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}