Job 15:12-22

12 ¿Por qué te enajena tu corazón, y por qué guiñan tus ojos

13 que respondas a Dios con tu espíritu, y sacas tales palabras de tu boca

14 ¿Qué cosa es el hombre para que sea limpio, y que se justifique el nacido de mujer

15 He aquí que en sus santos no confía, y ni los cielos son limpios delante de sus ojos

16 ¿cuánto menos el hombre abominable y vil, que bebe la iniquidad como agua

17 Escúchame; yo te mostraré, y te contaré lo que he visto

18 lo que los sabios nos contaron de sus padres, y no lo encubrieron

19 a los cuales fue dada la tierra a ellos sólos, y no pasó extraño por medio de ellos

20 Todos los días del impío, él es atormentado de dolor, y el número de años es escondido al violento

21 Estruendos espantosos hay en sus oídos; en la paz le vendrá quién lo asuele

22 El no creerá que ha de volver de las tinieblas, y siempre está mirando a la espada

Job 15:12-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 15

Job's three friends having in their turns attacked him, and he having given answer respectively to them, Eliphaz, who began the attack, first enters the debate with him again, and proceeds upon the same plan as before, and endeavours to defend his former sentiments, falling upon Job with greater vehemence and severity; he charges him with vanity, imprudence, and unprofitableness in his talk, and acting a part unbecoming his character as a wise man; yea, with impiety and a neglect of religion, or at least as a discourager of it by his words and doctrines, of which his mouth and lips were witnesses against him, Job 15:1-6; he charges him with arrogance and a high conceit of himself, as if he was the first man that was made, nay, as if he was the eternal wisdom of God, and had been in his council; and, to check his vanity, retorts his own words upon him, or however the sense of them, Job 15:7-10; and also with slighting the consolations of God; upon which he warmly expostulates with him, Job 15:11-13; and in order to convince him of his self-righteousness, which he thought he was full of, he argues from the angels, the heavens, and the general case of man, Job 15:14-16; and then he declares from his own knowledge, and from the relation of wise and ancient men in former times, who made it their observation, that wicked men are afflicted all their days, attended with terror and despair, and liable to various calamities, Job 15:17-24; the reasons of which are their insolence to God, and hostilities committed against him, which they are encouraged in by their prosperous circumstances, Job 15:25-27; notwithstanding all, their estates, riches, and wealth, will come to nothing, Job 15:28-30; and the chapter is closed with an exhortation to such, not to feed themselves up with vain hopes, or trust in uncertain riches, since their destruction would be sure, sudden, and terrible, Job 15:31-35.