Job 15
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 15, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Job 15:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? {vain...: Heb. knowledge of wind}
Job 15:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Job 15:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. {castest...: Heb. makest void} {prayer: or, speech}
Job 15:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. {uttereth: Heb. teacheth}
Job 15:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Job 15:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Art} thou the first man {that} was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
Job 15:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
Job 15:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What knowest thou, that we know not? {what} understandest thou, which {is} not in us?
Job 15:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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With us {are} both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Job 15:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Are} the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
Job 15:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
Job 15:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest {such} words go out of thy mouth?
Job 15:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What {is} man, that he should be clean? and {he which is} born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Job 15:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How much more abominable and filthy {is} man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Job 15:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I will shew thee, hear me; and that {which} I have seen I will declare;
Job 15:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid {it}:
Job 15:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Job 15:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all {his} days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Job 15:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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A dreadful sound {is} in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. {A dreadful...: Heb. A sound of fears}
Job 15:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Job 15:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He wandereth abroad for bread, {saying}, Where {is it}? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 15:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
Job 15:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He runneth upon him, {even} on {his} neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Job 15:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on {his} flanks.
Job 15:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, {and} in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Job 15:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
Job 15:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
Job 15:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Job 15:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. {accomplished: or, cut off}
Job 15:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Job 15:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the congregation of hypocrites {shall be} desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 15:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. {vanity: or, iniquity}
Job 15:35 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.