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Job 15

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¹Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, ²Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind? ³Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? ⁴Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God. ⁵For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. ⁶Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee. ⁷Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills? ⁸Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself? ⁹What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? ¹⁰With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father. ¹¹Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee? ¹²Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash, ¹³That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth? ¹⁴What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ¹⁵Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: ¹⁶How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water! ¹⁷I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare ¹⁸(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it; ¹⁹Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them): ²⁰The wicked man travaileth 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 upon him. ²²He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword. ²³He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth 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 hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty; ²⁶He runneth upon him with astiffneck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers; ²⁷Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins; ²⁸And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man 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, And by the breath ofGod’smouth shall he go away. ³¹Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense. ³²It shall be accomplished before his time, And 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, And their heart prepareth deceit.