Job-15

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  • 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
  • 2 "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
  • 3 Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?
  • 4 But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.
  • 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
  • 6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
  • 7 "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
  • 8 Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
  • 9 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
  • 10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
  • 11 Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
  • 12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
  • 13 that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?
  • 14 What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
  • 15 Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
  • 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
  • 17 "I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare
  • 18 (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,
  • 19 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).
  • 20 The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
  • 21 Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
  • 22 He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.
  • 23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
  • 24 distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
  • 25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,
  • 26 running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;
  • 27 because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist
  • 28 and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
  • 29 he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;
  • 30 he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
  • 31 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
  • 32 It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.
  • 33 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
  • 34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
  • 35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."
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