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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, |
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Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? |
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? |
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Yea, thou doest away with fear, and restrainest devotion before God. |
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For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. |
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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 brought forth before the hills? |
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Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? |
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What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? |
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With us are both the grayheaded and the very aged men, much elder than thy father. |
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Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word {cf15i that dealeth} gently with thee? |
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Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink? |
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That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest {cf15i such} words go out of thy mouth. |
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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 holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. |
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How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, a man that drinketh iniquity like water! |
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I will shew thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare: |
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(Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it; |
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Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:) |
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. |
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A sound of terrors is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him: |
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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, {cf15i saying}, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand: |
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Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle: |
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Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty; |
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He runneth upon him with a {cf15i stiff} neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers: |
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Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his flanks; |
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And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. |
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to the earth. |
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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. |
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Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself: for vanity shall be his recompence. |
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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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For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. |
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They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit. |
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