Comprehensive Job 15 Quiz with Answers: Is Job Arrogant or Misunderstood?

Answer: C — Eliphaz begins a sharp rebuttal to Job’s previous statements.

KJV Reference: Job 15:1 – “Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said…”

Answer: B — Eliphaz charges Job with speaking from empty reasoning.

KJV Reference: Job 15:2 – “Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?”

Answer: C — A metaphor for empty and destructive speech.

KJV Reference: Job 15:2 – “…and fill his belly with the east wind?”

Answer: C — Eliphaz suggests Job is speaking irreverently and without fear.

KJV Reference: Job 15:4 – “Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.”

Answer: E — Eliphaz accuses Job of incriminating himself by his arguments.

KJV Reference: Job 15:6 – “Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I…”

Answer: A — Eliphaz challenges Job’s perceived self-righteousness with sarcasm.

KJV Reference: Job 15:7 – “Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?”

Answer: B — He implies Job acts as though wisdom belongs only to him.

KJV Reference: Job 15:8 – “Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?”

Answer: D — Eliphaz uses the image of a roaring lion to mock Job’s passionate complaints.

KJV Reference: Job 15:20 – “The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days…” (context following lion metaphor from earlier in chapter)

Answer: D — He portrays a grim fate for the offspring of the unrighteous.

KJV Reference: Job 15:23 – “He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?”

Answer: C — Constant dread is said to haunt the wicked person.

KJV Reference: Job 15:21 – “A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.”

Answer: B — He is so tormented that he doesn’t expect dawn or deliverance.

KJV Reference: Job 15:22 – “He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.”

Answer: D — He is helpless and defenseless.

KJV Reference: Job 15:24 – “Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.”

Answer: B — The wicked man is portrayed as proudly defiant toward God.

KJV Reference: Job 15:25 – “For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.”

Answer: B — He uses this to describe the proud defiance of the ungodly.

KJV Reference: Job 15:26 – “He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers.”

Answer: C — Eliphaz paints a bleak picture of divine retribution.

KJV Reference: Job 15:23 – “He wandereth abroad for bread…”

Answer: E — A poetic image of emptiness and judgment.

KJV Reference: Job 15:2 – “Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?”

Answer: D — Even his physical body will not be spared.

KJV Reference: Job 15:30 – “He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.”

Answer: B — Eliphaz implies their fate is sealed regardless of their wealth.

KJV Reference: Job 15:21 – “A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.”

Answer: A — Weak, deceptive, and bound to collapse.

KJV Reference: Job 8:14 (parallel theme) — though not Job 15 directly, the same metaphor is used frequently by Eliphaz.

Answer: C — Their end will be emptiness and judgment.

KJV Reference: Job 15:34 – “For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.”