Job 15:16 Explained in Context

Verse 1. ¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Verse 2. ² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Verse 3. ³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Verse 4. ⁴ Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

Verse 5. ⁵ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Verse 6. ⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Verse 7. ⁷ Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

Verse 8. ⁸ Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

Verse 9. ⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

Verse 10. ¹⁰ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

Verse 11. ¹¹ Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

Verse 12. ¹² Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

Verse 13. ¹³ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

Verse 14. ¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Verse 15. ¹⁵ Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

Verse 16. ¹⁶ How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?