Job 15:10-26
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10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
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13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
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14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
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17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
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18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
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19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
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23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
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26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: