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JOB ยท Chapter 15
15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
15:2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with
the east wind?
15:3 Should he reason with useless talk? or with speeches wherewith
he can do no good?
15:4 Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
15:5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue
of the crafty.
15:6 your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yea, your own lips testify
against you.
15:7 Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the
hills?
15:8 Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to
yourself?
15:9 What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is
not in us?
15:10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder
than your father.
15:11 Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret
thing with you?
15:12 Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes overlook,
15:13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go
out of your mouth?
15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of
a woman, that he should be righteous?
15:15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are
not clean in his sight.
15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity
like water?
15:17 I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid
it:
15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among
them.
15:20 The wicked man labors with pain all his days, and the number
of years is hidden to the oppressor.
15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer
shall come upon him.
15:22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he
is waited for of the sword.
15:23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that
the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail
against him, as a king ready to the battle.
15:25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself
against the Almighty.
15:26 He runs upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of
his bucklers:
15:27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes fatness
on his flanks.
15:28 And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man
inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither
shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
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.
15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall
be his recompence.
15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall
not be green.
15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast
off his flower as the olive.
15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire
shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly
prepares deceit.
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