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Job|15:1|-|And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job|15:2|-|Should a wise man answer with the knowledge of wind,And should he fill his belly with the east wind?
Job|15:3|-|Should he argue with useless talkAnd with words by which he cannot avail?
Job|15:4|-|Indeed you do away with the fear of GodAnd restrain meditation before God.
Job|15:5|-|For your iniquity instructs your mouth,And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Job|15:6|-|Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;And your own lips testify against you.
Job|15:7|-|Are you the first man born?Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Job|15:8|-|Did you listen in on the |a|secret council of God?And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Job|15:9|-|What do you know that we do not know?What do you understand that is not with us?
Job|15:10|-|Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us,Older than your father.
Job|15:11|-|Are the consolations of God too small for you,Or the word spoken gently to you?
Job|15:12|-|Why does your heart take you away?And why do your eyes flash,
Job|15:13|-|That you turn your spirit against GodAnd let words go forth from your mouth?
Job|15:14|-|What is mortal man, that he can be |a|clean,Or he who is |b|born of a woman, that he can be |c|righteous?
Job|15:15|-|Indeed, He puts no trust in His holy ones;Even the |a|heavens are not clean in His eyes.
Job|15:16|-|How much less one who is abominable and corrupt!How much less a man who drinks wrong like water!
Job|15:17|-||1|I will tell you; hear me;And what I have seen, that will I recount,
Job|15:18|-|What wise men have declared,And have not hidden, from their fathers;
Job|15:19|-|To whom alone the land was given,And no stranger passed in their midst:
Job|15:20|-|For all his days the wicked man travails in pain,And numbered years are stored up for the ruthless man.
Job|15:21|-|The sound of terrors is in his ears;While he is at peace, the destroyer will come upon him.
Job|15:22|-|He does not believe that he will return from the darkness,And he is spied out for the sword.
Job|15:23|-|He wanders for bread—where is it?He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.
Job|15:24|-|Distress and straits terrify him;They prevail against him, like a king prepared for the attack;
Job|15:25|-|Because he stretched out his hand against God,And against the Almighty he acted mightily,
Job|15:26|-|Running against Him with a stiff neck,With the thick bosses of his shield;
Job|15:27|-|Because he covered his face with his fatnessAnd gathered fat upon his loins;
Job|15:28|-|And he dwelt in desolated cities,In houses which should not have been inhabited,
Which were appointed to become heaps.
Job|15:29|-|He will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure;Nor will |1|his produce bend down to the earth.
Job|15:30|-|He will not go away from darkness;The flame will dry up his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
Job|15:31|-|Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself;For vanity will be his recompense.
Job|15:32|-|It will be fully paid before his day,And his branch will not be flourishing.
Job|15:33|-|He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine,And he will cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
Job|15:34|-|For the company of the profane will be barren,And fire will devour the tents of bribery.
Job|15:35|-|They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity,And their heart prepares deceit.
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