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Job 15

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

²"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

³Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches with which he can do no good?

⁴Yes, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.

⁵For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

⁶Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.

⁷"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

⁸Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

⁹What do you know, that we don`t know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

¹⁰With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.

¹¹Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?

¹²Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

¹³That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

¹⁴What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

¹⁶How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

¹⁷"I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

¹⁸(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;

¹⁹To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

²⁰The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

²¹A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

²²He doesn`t believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

²³He wanders abroad for bread, saying, `Where is it?` He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

²⁴Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

²⁵Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

²⁶He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;

²⁷Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins.

²⁸He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

²⁹He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

³⁰He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God`s mouth shall he go away.

³¹Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.

³²It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

³³He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

³⁴For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

³⁵They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

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Chapter 15

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