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Job 15

1 Elipház reprehendeth Job, because he ascribeth wisdome, and purenes to himself. 16 He describeth the curse that falleth on the wicked, rekoning Job to be one of the nomber.
1.Then answered Elipház the Temanite, and said,
2.Shal a wise man speake wordes of the awinde, and fil his belly bwith the East winde?
3.Shal he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?
4.Surely thou hast cast of cfeare, & restrainest prayer before God.
5.For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seing thou hast chosen dthe tongue of the crafty.
6.Thine one mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.
7.Art thou the efirst man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
8.Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God, and doest thou restraine wisdome fto thee?
9.What knowest thou that we knowe not? and understandest that is not in us?
10.With us are bothe ancient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.
11.Seem the consolations of God gsmale unto thee? is this thing strange unto thee?
12.Why doeth thine heart htake thee away, and what do thine eyes meane,
13.That thou answerest to God ^at thy pleasure, & bringest suche wordes out of thy mouth?
14.What is man, that he shulde be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shulde ibe just?
15.Beholde, he founde no stedfastnes in his Saintes: yea, the heavens are not cleane in his sight.
16.How muche more is man abominable, and filthie, which kdrinketh iniquitie like water?
17.I wil tel thee: heare me, and I wil declare that which I have sene:
18.Which wise men have tolde, as they have heard of their fathers, and have not kept it secret:
19.To whome alone the land was lgiven and no stranger passed through them.
20.The wicked man is continually as one that travelleth of childe, and the nomber mof yeres is hid from the tyrant.
21.A sound of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shal come upon him.
22.He beleveth not to returne out of ndarkenes: for he seeth the sworde before him.
23.He wandreth oto and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenes is prepared at hand.
24.Affliction and panguish shal make him afraid: they shal prevaile against him as a King ready to the battel.
25.For he hathe stretched out his hand against God, and made him self strong against the Almightie.
26.Therefore God shal runne upon him, even upon his necke, and against the moste thicke part of his shield.
27.Because he hathe covered his face with qhis fatnes, and hathe collopes in his flancke.
28.Thogh he dwel rin desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,
29.He shal not be riche, nether shal his substance continue, nether shal he prolong the sperfection thereof in the earth.
30.He shal never depart out of darkenes: the flame shal drye up his branches, and he shal go away with the breath of his mouth.
31.He tbeleveth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change. Job’s affliction. Job. 15:3
32.His branche shal not be grene, but shalbe cut of before his day.
33.God shal destroy him as the vine her sower ugrape, and shal cast him of, as the olive doeth her flowre.
34.For the congregacion of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fyre shal devoure the houses of xbribes.
35.For thei yconceive mischief and bring forthe vanitie, and their bellie hathe prepared deceite.

Notes

2-a.
That is, vain words, and without consolation?
2-b.
Meaning, with matters that are none importance which are forgotten as soon as they are uttered, as the East wind dries up moisture as soon as it falls.
4-c.
He charges Job as though his talk caused men to cast off the fear of God and prayer.
5-d.
You speak as do the mockers, and contemners of God.
7-e.
That is, the most ancient, and so by reason the most wise?
8-f.
Are you only wise?
11-g.
He accuses Job’s pride, & ingratitude, that will not be comfort- ed by God, nor by their counsel. 1 Geneva Bible 1560
12-h.
Why do you stand in your own conceit?
13-^.
Ebr., in your spirit.
14-i.
His purpose is to prove, that Job as an unjust man and an hypocrite is punished for his sins, like as he did before, ch. 4.18.
16-k.
Which has a desire to sin as he that is thirsty to drink.
19-l.
Who by their wisdom so governed, that no stranger invaded them, and so the land seemed to be given to them alone.
20-m.
The cruel man is ever in danger of death, and is never quite in conscience.
22-n.
Out of that misery where into he once fell.
23-o.
God does not only impoverish the wicked oft times: but even in their prosperity he punishes them with a greediness ever more to gather: which is as a beggar.
24-p.
He shows what weapons God uses against the wicked which lift up themselves against him, to wit, terror of conscience, and outward afflictions.
27-q.
That is, he was so puffed up with great prosperity, and abun- dance of all things, that he forgot God: noting that Job in his felicity had not the true fear of God.
28-r.
Though he build, and repair ruinous places to get him fame, yet God shall bring all to naught, and turn his great prosperity into extreme misery.
29-s.
Meaning, that his sumptuous buildings shall never come to perfection.
31-t.
He stands so in his own conceit, that he will give no place to good counsel, therefore his own pride shall bring him to destruction. 1
33-u.
As one that gathers grapes before they are ripe.
34-x.
Which were built or maintained by powling, and bribery.
35-y.
And therefore all their vain devises shall turn to their own destruction.