Job 15 (summary): Eliphaz returns

Now Job's 'friend' or 'comforter' Eliphaz returns to goad him. Eliphaz says that Job's words are empty and that he is a bag of wind! He says Job's words are useless and without value, and that Job's own words condemn him and testify against himself. He asks Job who he thinks he is because he is not the owner of wisdom and the wisdom of the aged back Eliphaz and friends' point of view. He asks how Job can speak to God the way he does? "What is man that he could be pure"? asks Eliphaz. If God doesn't even trust the angels how much less would he trust man? Eliphaz says that distress and anguish come to man because "he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the almighty". Man might be fat but he will end up living in ruins and his wealth will not endure". Eliphaz tells Job to stop trying to deceive himself because "the company of the godless will be barren".