Job 15:13
Why do your eyes flash in anger that you turn against God and let yourself speak this way?
Free Bible 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 do you let yourself be carried away by your emotions?
14Who can say they are clean? Which human being can say that they do what is right?
Cross References
Genesis 4:5but he wasn't pleased with Cain and his offering, which made Cain very angry and he frowned in annoyance.
Job 9:4God is so wise and so powerful that no one could challenge him and win.
Job 12:6Robbers live in peace, and those who make God angry live in safety, trusting their own strength as their ‘god.’
Psalms 34:13Then don't let your tongue speak evil, or your lips tell lies.
Lamentations 3:39Why should any human being complain about the results of their sins?
Malachi 3:13You have said hard things about me, says the Lord. But you say, “What have we said against you?”
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 →