Job 15
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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
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Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east
wind?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
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Yea, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.
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For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
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Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yea, your own lips testify against you.
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Art you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
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Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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What know you, that we know not? What understand you, which is not in us?
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With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.
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Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward
you?
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Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,
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That against God you turn your spirit, And let words go out of your mouth?
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What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should
be righteous?
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Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
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How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinks iniquity like
water!
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I will show you, hear you me; And that which I have seen I will declare:
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(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
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To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
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The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are
laid up for the oppressor.
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A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the
sword.
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He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness
is ready at his hand.
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Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to
the battle.
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Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against
the Almighty;
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He runs upon him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
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Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
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And he has dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were
ready to become heaps;
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their
possessions be extended on the earth.
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He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the
breath of [God`s] mouth shall he go away.
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Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
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It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.
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He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as
the olive-tree.
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For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of
bribery.
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They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepares deceit.