Eliphaz Answered Again — Job 15:1–10

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge,
And fill himself with the east wind?

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

Yea, thou doest away with fear,
And hinderest devotion before God.

For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,
And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;
Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Art thou the first man that was born?
Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God?
And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

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

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,
Much elder than thy father.