Job 15

“Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,” Naming Eliphaz and Temanite keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.” Naming Yea keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.” Naming Thine keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.” The line’s distinctive content terms include aged, both, elder. Its relationship to verses 9 and 11 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.” The line’s distinctive content terms include clean, heavens, putteth. Its relationship to verses 16 shows what work it does in this passage.

“How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;” The line’s distinctive content terms include declare, hear, seen. Its relationship to verses 16 and 18 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:” The line’s distinctive content terms include fathers, told, wise. Its relationship to verses 17 and 19 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.” Naming Unto keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.” The line’s distinctive content terms include days, hidden, number. Its relationship to verses 19 and 21 shows what work it does in this passage.

“A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:” The line’s distinctive content terms include bosses, bucklers, neck. Its relationship to verses 25 and 27 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.” The line’s distinctive content terms include become, cities, desolate. Its relationship to verses 27 shows what work it does in this passage.

“He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go…” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.” The command cannot be understood from the verb alone. Its recipient, purpose, and place in the larger covenant or argument define the responsibility.

“For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.” The line’s distinctive content terms include belly, conceive, deceit. Its relationship to verses 34 shows what work it does in this passage.