Job 15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Job 15Eliphaz Speaks: Job Undermines Religion

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

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26running stubbornly against him

with a thickly bossed shield;

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30 will be swept away by the wind.

31 Isa 59.4 Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves,

for emptiness will be their recompense.

32 Job 18.16; 22.16; Ps 55.23 It will be paid in full before their time,

and their branch will not be green.

33 Hab 3.17 They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine,

and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.

34 Job 8.22; 16.7 For the company of the godless is barren,

and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

35 Ps 7.14; Isa 59.4; Hos 10.13 They conceive mischief and bring forth evil,

and their belly prepares deceit.”