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| 15:1 |
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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| 15:2 |
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
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| 15:3 |
Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
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| 15:4 |
Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
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| 15:5 |
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
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| 15:6 |
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
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| 15:7 |
Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
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| 15:8 |
Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
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| 15:9 |
What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?
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| 15:10 |
Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
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| 15:11 |
Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?
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| 15:12 |
Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
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| 15:13 |
That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
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| 15:14 |
What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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| 15:15 |
Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
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| 15:16 |
How much less the abominable and corrupt, -- man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
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| 15:17 |
I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
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| 15:18 |
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
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| 15:19 |
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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| 15:20 |
All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
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| 15:21 |
The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
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| 15:22 |
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
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| 15:23 |
He wandereth abroad for bread, -- where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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| 15:24 |
Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.
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| 15:25 |
For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:
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| 15:26 |
He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;
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| 15:27 |
For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.
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| 15:28 |
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.
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| 15:29 |
He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.
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| 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.
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| 15:31 |
Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;
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| 15:32 |
It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.
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| 15:33 |
He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.
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| 15:34 |
For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
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| 15:35 |
They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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