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| 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, |
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2 Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge,
And fill himself with the east wind?
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3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
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4 Yes, thou doest away with fear,
And hinderest devotion before God.
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5 For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,
And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;
Yes, thine own lips testify against thee.
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7 Art thou the first man that was born?
Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
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8 Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God?
And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
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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 gray-headed and the very aged men,
Much elder than thy father.
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11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee,
Even the word that is gentle toward thee?
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12 Why doth thy heart carry thee away?
And why do thine eyes flash,
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13 That against God thou turnest thy spirit,
And lettest words go out of thy mouth?
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14 What is man, that he should be clean?
And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones;
Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
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16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt,
A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
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17 I will show thee, hear thou me;
And that which I have seen I will declare:
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18 (Which wise men have told
From their fathers, and have not hid it;
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19 Unto whom alone the land was given,
And no stranger passed among them:)
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20 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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21 A sound of terrors is in his ears;
In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him:
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22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,
And he is waited for of the sword:
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23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand:
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24 Distress and anguish make him afraid;
They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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25 Because he hath stretched out his hand against God,
And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
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26 He runneth upon him with a stiff neck,
With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
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27 Because he hath covered his face with his fatness,
And gathered fat upon his loins;
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28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities,
In houses which no man inhabited,
Which were ready to become heaps;
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29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
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30 He shall not depart out of darkness;
The flame shall dry up his branches,
And by the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.
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31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself;
For vanity shall be his recompense.
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32 It shall be accomplished before his time,
And his branch shall not be green.
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33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
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34 For the company of the godless shall be barren,
And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
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35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity,
And their heart prepareth deceit. |
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