Job 15:1-13

The Voice

² Eliphaz: Does a wise man reply with windy knowledge
        and fill up his belly with the hot east wind?
³     Does a wise man reason with impotent chatter,
        with bankrupt words of no account?
⁴     Indeed, Job, you have ignored your responsibility to revere God
        and depreciated your own thoughts toward God;
⁵     For your faults inform your speech,
        and your language is tricky.
⁶     Your own mouth condemns you, not I;
        your own lips volunteer as witnesses against you.

⁷     Were you the firstborn among men?
        Were you introduced to the earth before the hills were conceived?
⁸     Were you allowed to listen in on the deliberations in God’s assembly?
        Do you imagine all knowledge to be confined to you and you only?
⁹     What do you know that we don’t know?
        Do you have an understanding that has somehow eluded us?
¹⁰     We have gray hairs and elders among us
        weighed down with years,
        heavier than your father.
¹¹     Do you find God’s many comforts too meager
        and His gentle speech to you too mild?
¹²     What has stripped you of your reason, carried away your heart?
        Why do your eyes flash with anger—
¹³     So much so that you unleash your spirit
        and spray out such speeches against God?