Job 15:13
Why does your spirit stir against God, so as to utter such speeches from your mouth?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
In Context
12Why does your heart exalt you, and why do you gaze with your eyes, as if thinking great things?
14What is man that he should be immaculate, and that he should appear just, having been born of woman?
Cross References
Genesis 4:5Yet in truth, he did not look with favor on Cain and his gifts. And Cain was vehemently angry, and his countenance fell.
Job 9:4He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace?
Job 12:6The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.
Psalms 34:13But as for me, when they were harassing me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer will become my sinews.
Lamentations 3:39MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?
Malachi 3:13Your words have gathered strength over me, says the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Job 15:2-17
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. 7 Art thou the first… Read the whole commentary →