{"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/kjv/job/15","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:11:59.654Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 wherewith he can do no good?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, 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":"<i>Art</i> thou the first man <i>that</i> was born? or wast thou made before the hills?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"What knowest thou, that we know not? <i>what</i> understandest thou, which <i>is</i> not in us?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"With us <i>are</i> both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"<i>Are</i> the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest <i>such</i> words go out of thy mouth?"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"What <i>is</i> man, that he should be clean? and <i>he which is</i> born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"How much more abominable and filthy <i>is</i> man, which drinketh iniquity like water?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I will shew thee, hear me; and that <i>which</i> I have seen I will declare;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid <i>it</i>:"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"The wicked man travaileth with pain all <i>his</i> days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"A dreadful sound <i>is</i> 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, <i>saying</i>, Where <i>is it</i>? he knoweth 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 stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He runneth upon him, <i>even</i> on <i>his</i> neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on <i>his</i> flanks."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And he dwelleth in desolate cities, <i>and</i> in houses which no man inhabiteth, 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 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 not him that is deceived trust in vanity: 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 congregation of hypocrites <i>shall be</i> desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 15 (KJV)","markdown":"[Job 15](https://primebible.com/kjv/job/15)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/job/15 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}