Job 15
Eliphaz's Second Speech: The Wicked Suffer All Their Days
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Parallel theme: Job 2:11, 4:1, 22:1, 42:7, 42:9
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Parallel theme: Job 6:26, 8:2, Hosea 12:1
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. References God: Romans 3:31
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. Parallel theme: Job 5:13, Psalms 64:3, Jeremiah 9:8, Luke 6:45, James 1:26
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. Parallel theme: Job 9:20, Matthew 12:37, Luke 19:22
7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? Parallel theme: Psalms 90:2
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? Parallel theme: Jeremiah 23:18, Romans 11:34
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? Parallel theme: Job 13:2, 2 Corinthians 11:5
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11 Are the consolations of GodGod: אֱלֹהִים (Elohim). The Hebrew Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) is a plural form denoting majesty and fullness of deity. Though grammatically plural, it takes singular verbs when referring to the one true God, suggesting the Trinity's plurality within unity. small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? References God: Job 12:6. Word: Malachi 3:13. Parallel theme: Job 9:4, 10:3, Psalms 34:13, James 1:26
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Righteousness: Ecclesiastes 7:20. Parallel theme: Job 14:4, 1 Kings 8:46, Psalms 14:3, Proverbs 20:9, Romans 7:18
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. Faith: Job 4:18. Holy: Job 5:1. Parallel theme: Job 25:5
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? Sin: Proverbs 19:28. Parallel theme: Job 34:7, Titus 3:3
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: Parallel theme: Job 8:8
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. Parallel theme: Joel 3:17
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. Evil: Job 27:13. Parallel theme: Job 24:1
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. Parallel theme: Job 18:11, 27:20, Leviticus 26:36, Psalms 92:7, 1 Corinthians 10:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Revelation 9:11 +2
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. Parallel theme: Job 18:12, Psalms 59:15, 109:10
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he stretcheth out his hand against GodGod: אֱלֹהִים (Elohim). The Hebrew Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) is a plural form denoting majesty and fullness of deity. Though grammatically plural, it takes singular verbs when referring to the one true God, suggesting the Trinity's plurality within unity., and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. References God: Psalms 52:7, Daniel 5:23. Parallel theme: Job 9:4, 36:9, 1 Samuel 6:6, Psalms 73:9, Malachi 3:13 +2
26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks. Parallel theme: Deuteronomy 32:15, Psalms 17:10, 73:7, Isaiah 6:10, Jeremiah 5:28
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
30 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. Darkness: Job 15:22, 20:26. Parallel theme: Job 4:9
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. Faith: Psalms 62:10, Isaiah 59:4. Parallel theme: Job 4:8, 12:16, Proverbs 22:8, Isaiah 44:20, Hosea 8:7, Jonah 2:8, Galatians 6:3, Ephesians 5:6 +5
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. Parallel theme: Job 22:16, Psalms 55:23, Ecclesiastes 7:17
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. Parallel theme: Job 8:13
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. Parallel theme: Psalms 7:14, Hosea 10:13