Job 15

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Eliphaz

2.11 4.1 22.1 42.7,9

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

a wise man

11.2,3 13.2 James 3.13

vain knowledge

Heb. knowledge of wind.

6.26 8.2

fill

Hosea 12.1

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

he reason

13.4,5 16.2,3 26.1-3 Malachi 3.13-15 Matthew 12.36,37 Colossians 4.6 1 Timothy 6.4,5

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

castest off

Heb. makest void.

4.5,6 6.14 Psalms 36.1-3 119.126 Zephaniah 1.6 Romans 3.31 Galatians 2.21

restrainest

5.8 27.10 1 Chronicles 10.13,14 Hosea 7.14 Amos 6.10 Luke 18.1

prayer

or, speech.

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

uttereth

Heb. teacheth.

9.22-24 12.6 Mark 7.21,22 Luke 6.45 James 1.26

thou choosest

Psalms 50.19,20 52.2-4 64.3 120.2,3 Jeremiah 9.3-5,8 James 3.5-8

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

own mouth

9.20 Psalms 64.8 Matthew 12.37 26.65 Luke 19.22

thine own

33.8-12 34.5-9 35.2,3 40.8 42.3

Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

the first

10 12.12 Genesis 4.1

or wast thou

38.4-41 Psalms 90.2 Proverbs 8.22-25

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

the secret

11.6 Deuteronomy 29.29 Psalms 25.14 Proverbs 3.32 Jeremiah 23.18 Amos 3.7 Matthew 11.25 Matthew 13.11,35 John 15.15 Romans 11.34 16.25,26 1 Corinthians 2.9-11,16

thou restrain

12.2 13.5,6

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

knowest

13.2 26.3,4 2 Corinthians 10.7 11.5,21-30

With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

the gray-headed

8.8-10 12.20 32.6,7 Deuteronomy 32.7 Proverbs 16.31

Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

the consolations

5.8-26 11.13-19 2 Corinthians 1.3-5 7.6

is there

8 13.2 1 Kings 22.24

Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

thine heart

Ecclesiastes 11.9 Mark 7.21,22 Acts 5.3,4 8.22 James 1.14,15

thy eyes

17.2 Psalms 35.19 Proverbs 6.13

That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

turnest

25-27 9.4 Romans 8.7,8

and lettest

10.3 12.6 Psalms 34.13 Malachi 3.13 James 1.26 3.2-6

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

is man

9.2 14.4 25.4-6 1 Kings 8.46 2 Chronicles 6.36 Psalms 14.3 51.5 Proverbs 20.9 Ecclesiastes 7.20,29 John 3.6 Romans 7.18 Galatians 3.22 Ephesians 2.2,3 1 John 1.8-10

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

he putteth

4.18 25.5 Isaiah 6.2-5

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

How much

Rather, "How much less aph kee, abominable and filthy man," who, under the influence of sinful propensities, commits sin as greedily as a thirsty man or camel drinks down water.

abominable

4.19 42.6 Psalms 14.1-3 53.3 Romans 1.28-30 3.9-19 Titus 3.3

drinketh

20.12 34.7 Proverbs 19.28

I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

hear me

5.27 13.5,6 33.1 34.2 36.2

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

from their

10 8.8 Psalms 71.18 78.3-6 Isaiah 38.19

Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

Unto whom

Genesis 10.25,32 Deuteronomy 32.8 Joel 3.17

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

travaileth

Romans 8.22 Ecclesiastes 9.3

the number

Psalms 90.3,4,12 Luke 12.19-21 James 5.1-6

A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

dreadful sound

Heb. sound of fears.

18.11 Genesis 3.9,10 Leviticus 26.36 2 Kings 7.6 Proverbs 1.26,27

in prosperity

1.13-19 20.5-7,22-24 Leviticus 26.36 1 Samuel 25.36-38 Psalms 73.18-20 92.7 Acts 12.21-23 1 Thessalonians 5.3

the destroyer

1 Corinthians 10.10 Revelation 9.11

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

He believeth not

6.11 9.16 2 Kings 6.33 Isaiah 8.21,22 Matthew 27.5

and he is

20.24,25

He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

wandereth

30.3,4 Genesis 4.12 Psalms 59.15 109.10 Lamentations 5.6,9 Hebrews 11.37,38

the day

18.5,6,12,18 Ecclesiastes 11.8 Joel 2.2 Amos 5.20 Zephaniah 1.15 Hebrews 10.27

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

anguish

6.2-4 Psalms 119.143 Proverbs 1.27 Isaiah 13.3 Matthew 26.37,38 Romans 2.9

as a king

Proverbs 6.11 24.34

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

he stretcheth

Leviticus 26.23 Psalms 73.9,11 Isaiah 27.4 Daniel 5.23 Malachi 3.13 Acts 9.5 12.1,23

strengtheneth

9.4 40.9-11 Exodus 5.2,3 9.17 1 Samuel 4.7-9 6.6 Psalms 52.7 Isaiah 8.9,10 Isaiah 10.12-14 41.4-7

He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

runneth

2 Chronicles 28.22 32.13-17

even on

16.12 Genesis 49.8 Psalms 18.40

Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

he covereth

17.10 Deuteronomy 32.15 Psalms 17.10 73.7 78.31 Isaiah 6.10 Jeremiah 5.28

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

desolate

3.14 18.15 Isaiah 5.8-10 Micah 7.18

which are ready

Jeremiah 9.11 26.18 51.37 Micah 3.12

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

neither shall

20.22-28 22.15-20 27.16,17 Psalms 49.16,17 Luke 12.19-21 16.2,19-22 James 1.11 5.1-3

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.

depart

22 10.21,22 18.5,6,18 Matthew 8.12 22.13 2 Peter 2.17 Jude 1.13

the flame

20.26 Isaiah 30.33 Ezekiel 15.4-7 20.47,48 Matthew 25.41 Mark 9.43-49 2 Thessalonians 1.8,9

by the breath

4.9 Isaiah 11.4 Revelation 19.15

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

not him

12.16 Isaiah 44.20 Galatians 6.3,7 Ephesians 5.6

trust

Psalms 62.10 Isaiah 59.4 Jonah 2.8

for vanity

4.8 Proverbs 22.8 Isaiah 17.10,11 Hosea 8.7 Galatians 6.8

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

accomplished

or, cut off.

22.16 Psalms 55.23 Ecclesiastes 7.17

and his branch

8.16-19 14.7-9 18.16,17 Psalms 52.5-8 Isaiah 27.11 Ezekiel 17.8-10 Hosea 9.16 14.5-7 John 15.6

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

shake off

Isaiah 33.9 Revelation 6.13

and

Deuteronomy 28.39,40

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

the congregation

8.13 20.1 27.8 36.13 Isaiah 33.14,15 Matthew 24.51

the tabernacles

11.14 12.6 22.5-9 29.12-17 1 Samuel 8.3 12.3 Micah 7.2 Amos 5.11,12

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

conceive

Psalms 7.14 Isaiah 59.4,5 Hosea 10.13 Galatians 6.7,8 James 1.15

vanity

or, iniquity.