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Job 15:1-16

1 Eliphaz answered:

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 Will the wise respond with windy knowledge and fill their belly with the east wind?

2 “Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?

3 Will they argue with a word that has no benefit and with unprofitable words?

3 Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?

4 You are truly making religion ineffective and restraining meditation before God.

4 But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.

5 Your mouth multiplies your sins a thousand times; you opt for a clever tongue.

5 Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.

6 Your mouth condemns you, not I; your lips argue against you.

6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.

7 Were you born the first Adam, brought forth before the hills?

7 “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

8 Did you listen in God's council; is wisdom limited to you?

8 Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?

9 What do you know that we don't know; what do you understand that isn't among us?

9 What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?

10 Both the graybeard and the aged are with us; those much older than your father.

10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

11 Are God's comforts not enough for you, a word spoken gently with you?

11 Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?

12 Why has your mind seized you, why have your eyes flashed,

12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

13 so that you return your breath to God and utter such words from your mouth?

13 so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?

14 What are humans that they might be pure, and those born of woman that they might be innocent?

14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

15 If he doesn't trust his holy ones and the heavens aren't pure in his eyes,

15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

16 how much less those who are abominable and corrupt, for they drink sin like water.

16 how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!