Job 15 (NET)

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Job 15:1¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 2:11 Job 42:7 Job 22:1 Job 4:1 Job 42:9

Job 15:2²“Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 6:26 Job 8:2 Hos 12:1 Jas 3:13 Job 11:2-3 Job 13:2

Job 15:3³Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 4:6 Matt 12:36-37 1 Tim 6:4-5 Job 13:4-5 Job 16:2-3 Job 26:1-3 Mal 3:13-15

Job 15:4⁴But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 3:31 1 Chr 10:13-14 Amos 6:10 Gal 2:21 Hos 7:14 Job 27:10 Job 4:5-6 Job 5:8 Job 6:14 Luke 18:1

Job 15:5⁵Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 9:3-5 Jas 1:26 Jas 3:5-8 Jer 9:8 Luke 6:45 Ps 50:19-20 Ps 52:2-4 Job 5:13 Job 9:22-24 Ps 120:2-3

Job 15:6⁶Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 19:22 Job 9:20 Matt 12:37 Job 33:8-12 Job 34:5-9 Job 35:2-3 Job 40:8 Job 42:3 Ps 64:8 Matt 26:65

Job 15:7⁷“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 90:2 Job 12:12 Job 38:4-41 Prov 8:22-25 Gen 4:1 Job 15:10

Job 15:8⁸Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 11:34 Jer 23:18 1 Cor 2:16 1 Cor 2:9-11 Amos 3:7 Deut 29:29 Job 11:6 Job 12:2 Job 13:5-6 Job 29:4

Job 15:9⁹What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 13:2 2 Cor 11:5 2 Cor 10:7 2 Cor 11:21-30 Job 12:3 Job 26:3-4

Job 15:10¹⁰The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 32:6-7 Job 12:12 Job 8:8-10 Deut 32:7 Job 12:20 Prov 16:31

Job 15:11¹¹Are God’s consolations too trivial for you, or a word spoken in gentleness to you?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 1:3-5 Job 13:2 1 Kgs 22:24 2 Cor 7:6 Job 11:13-19 Job 15:8 Job 36:16 Job 5:8-26

Job 15:12¹²Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 11:9 Mark 7:21-22 Ps 35:19 Acts 5:3-4 Acts 8:22 Jas 1:14-15 Job 11:13 Job 17:2 Prov 6:13

Job 15:13¹³when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 3:2-6 Job 15:25-27 Jas 1:26 Job 10:3 Job 12:6 Job 9:4 Mal 3:13 Ps 34:13 Rom 8:7-8

Job 15:14¹⁴What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 7:20 Job 14:4 Prov 20:9 Rom 7:18 Job 25:4-6 1 John 1:8-10 1 Kgs 8:46 Ps 14:3 2 Chr 6:36 Eccl 7:29

Job 15:15¹⁵If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 25:5 Job 4:18 Isa 6:2-5 Job 5:1

Job 15:16¹⁶how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 34:7 Prov 19:28 Ps 53:3 Rom 3:9-19 Titus 3:3 Job 20:12 Job 4:19 Job 42:6 Ps 14:1-3 Rom 1:28-30

Job 15:17¹⁷“I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 13:5-6 Job 33:1 Job 34:2 Job 36:2 Job 5:27

Job 15:18¹⁸what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 8:8 Isa 38:19 Job 15:10 Ps 71:18 Ps 78:3-6

Job 15:19¹⁹to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Joel 3:17 Deut 32:8 Gen 10:25 Gen 10:32

Job 15:20²⁰All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 5:1-6 Job 27:13 Job 24:1 Luke 12:19-21 Eccl 9:3 Ps 90:12 Ps 90:3-4 Rom 8:22

Job 15:21²¹Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 18:11 1 Thess 5:3 Lev 26:36 1 Cor 10:10 Job 1:13-19 Job 20:22-25 Job 20:5-7 Job 27:20 Prov 1:26-27 Ps 92:7

Job 15:22²²He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 20:24-25 2 Kgs 6:33 Isa 8:21-22 Job 19:29 Job 27:14 Job 6:11 Job 9:16 Matt 27:5

Job 15:23²³he wanders about—food for vultures — he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 18:12 Ps 109:10 Ps 59:15 Amos 5:20 Eccl 11:8 Gen 4:12 Heb 10:27 Heb 11:37-38 Job 18:18 Job 18:5-6

Job 15:24²⁴Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 24:34 Prov 6:11 Isa 13:3 Job 6:2-4 Matt 26:37-38 Prov 1:27 Ps 119:143 Rom 2:9

Job 15:25²⁵for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 5:23 Job 9:4 Ps 52:7 Ps 73:9 1 Sam 6:6 Job 36:9 Mal 3:13 Ps 73:11 1 Sam 4:7-9 Acts 12:1

Job 15:26²⁶defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 28:22 2 Chr 32:13-17 Gen 49:8 Job 16:12 Ps 18:40

Job 15:27²⁷Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 17:10 Isa 6:10 Jer 5:28 Ps 73:7 Deut 32:15 Job 17:10 Ps 78:31

Job 15:28²⁸he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 3:14 Jer 51:37 Isa 5:8-10 Jer 26:18 Jer 9:11 Job 18:15 Mic 3:12 Mic 7:18

Job 15:29²⁹He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 27:16-17 Jas 1:11 Jas 5:1-3 Job 20:22-28 Job 22:15-20 Luke 12:19-21 Luke 16:19-22 Luke 16:2 Ps 49:16-17

Job 15:30³⁰He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 4:9 Job 15:22 Job 18:5-6 Job 20:26 Matt 25:41 2 Pet 2:17 2 Thess 1:8-9 Ezek 15:4-7 Ezek 20:47-48 Isa 11:4

Job 15:31³¹Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 59:4 Gal 6:3 Gal 6:7-8 Hos 8:7 Ps 62:10 Eph 5:6 Isa 44:20 Job 12:16 Job 4:8 Jonah 2:8

Job 15:32³²Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 7:17 Ps 55:23 Hos 9:16 Job 22:16 Ezek 17:8-10 Hos 14:5-7 Isa 27:11 Job 14:7-9 Job 18:16-17 Job 8:16-19

Job 15:33³³Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 28:39-40 Isa 33:9 Rev 6:13

Job 15:34³⁴For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 8:13 Job 27:8 Job 8:22 Mic 7:2 1 Sam 12:3 1 Sam 8:3 Amos 5:11-12 Isa 33:14-15 Job 11:14 Job 12:6

Job 15:35³⁵They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 7:14 Hos 10:13 Isa 59:4-5 Jas 1:15 Gal 6:7-8

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