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Chapter 15 |
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1 | Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and
said, |
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Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly
with the east wind? |
| 3 | Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or
with speeches wherewith he can do no good? |
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4 | Yea, thou castest off
fear, and restrainest prayer before God. |
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5 | For thy mouth uttereth thine
iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. |
| 6 | Thine own
mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against
thee. |
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Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before
the hills? |
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| Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain
wisdom to thyself? |
| 9 | What knowest thou, that we know not? what
understandest thou, which is not in us? |
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10 | With us are both the
grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. |
| 11 | Are the
consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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| 12 | Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink
at, |
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That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such
words go out of thy mouth? |
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14 | What is man, that he should be clean?
and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? |
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Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in
his sight. |
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| How much more abominable and filthy is man, which
drinketh iniquity like water? |
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17 | I will shew thee, hear me; and that
which I have seen I will declare; |
| 18 | Which wise men have told from
their fathers, and have not hid it: |
| 19 | Unto whom alone the earth was
given, and no stranger passed among them. |
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20 | The wicked man travaileth
with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the
oppressor. |
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| A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the
destroyer shall come upon him. |
| 22 | He believeth not that he
shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. |
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He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of
darkness is ready at his hand. |
| 24 | Trouble and anguish shall
make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the
battle. |
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| For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and
strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. |
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26 | He runneth upon him,
even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: |
| 27 | Because
he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his
flanks. |
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| And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which
no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. |
| 29 | He shall not
be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the
perfection thereof upon the earth. |
| 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. |
| 31 | Let not him that is deceived trust in
vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. |
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32 | 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. |
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34 | For the congregation of hypocrites shall be
desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. |
| 35 | They
conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth
deceit. |
