{"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/erv/job/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T22:12:58.524Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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 his belly 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 restrainest 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 restrain 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 grayheaded and the very aged men, much elder than thy father."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy 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 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 shew 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 spoiler 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 made collops of fat on his flanks;"},{"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 produce bend to 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, deceiving himself: for vanity shall be his recompence."},{"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 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 belly prepareth deceit."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 15 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 15](https://primebible.com/erv/job/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/15 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}