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| 15:1 |
And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
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| 15:2 |
Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?
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| 15:3 |
To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?
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| 15:4 |
Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
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| 15:5 |
For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
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| 15:6 |
Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
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| 15:7 |
The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
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| 15:8 |
Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
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| 15:9 |
What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?
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| 15:10 |
Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us -- Greater than thy father [in] days.
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| 15:11 |
Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word [is] with thee,
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| 15:12 |
What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?
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| 15:13 |
For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
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| 15:14 |
What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
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| 15:15 |
Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
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| 15:16 |
Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
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| 15:17 |
I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:
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| 15:18 |
Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.
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| 15:19 |
To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
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| 15:20 |
`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
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| 15:21 |
A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.
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| 15:22 |
He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword.
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| 15:23 |
He is wandering for bread -- `Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.
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| 15:24 |
Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.
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| 15:25 |
For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.
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| 15:26 |
He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.
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| 15:27 |
For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over [his] confidence.
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| 15:28 |
And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.
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| 15:29 |
He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.
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| 15:30 |
He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!
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| 15:31 |
Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.
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| 15:32 |
Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
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| 15:33 |
He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
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| 15:34 |
For the company of the profane [is] gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.
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| 15:35 |
To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
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