Job 15:1-13

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15 The answer of Eliphaz the Temanite:

² “You are supposed to be a wise man, and yet you give us all this foolish talk. You are nothing but a windbag. ³ It isn’t right to speak so foolishly. What good do such words do? ^4-5 Have you no fear of God? No reverence for him? Your sins are telling your mouth what to say! Your words are based on clever deception, ⁶ but why should I condemn you? Your own mouth does!

^7-8 “Are you the wisest man alive? Were you born before the hills were made? Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Are you called into his counsel room? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom? ⁹ What do you know more than we do? What do you understand that we don’t? ¹⁰ On our side are aged men much older than your father! ¹¹ Is God’s comfort too little for you? Is his gentleness too rough?

¹² “What is this you are doing, getting carried away by your anger, with flashing eyes? ¹³ And you turn against God and say all these evil things against him.