Job 15:14-26

English Standard Version

¹⁴^(A)What is man, ^(B)that he can be pure?
    Or he who is ^(C)born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
¹⁵Behold, God^[a] ^(D)puts no trust in his ^(E)holy ones,
    and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
¹⁶^(F)how much less one who is abominable and ^(G)corrupt,
    a man who ^(H)drinks injustice like water!

¹⁷“I will show you; hear me,
    and what I have seen I will declare
¹⁸(what wise men have told,
    without hiding it ^(I)from their fathers,
¹⁹to whom alone the land was given,
    and no ^(J)stranger passed among them).
²⁰The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
    through all the ^(K)years that are laid up for ^(L)the ruthless.
²¹^(M)Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
    in ^(N)prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
²²He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
    and he is marked for the sword.
²³He ^(O)wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’
    He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
²⁴distress and anguish terrify him;
    they ^(P)prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
²⁵Because he has stretched out his hand against God
    and defies the Almighty,
²⁶^(Q)running ^(R)stubbornly against him
    with a thickly bossed shield;