Job 15:1-13

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

3Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?

4But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.

5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.

7"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

8Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?

9What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?

10Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.

11Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?

12Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,

13that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?