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| 1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, |
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| 2 Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind, |
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| 3 Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good? |
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| 4 Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before *God. |
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| 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty. |
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| 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee. |
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| 7 Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills? |
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| 8 Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for 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 Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father. |
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| 11 Are the consolations of *God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee? |
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| 12 Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink? |
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| 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against *God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth? |
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| 14 What is man, that he should be pure? 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, and the heavens are not pure in his sight: |
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| 16 How much less the abominable and corrupt, --man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water! |
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| 17 I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare; |
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| 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden; |
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| 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. |
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| 20 All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent. |
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| 21 The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him. |
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| 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword. |
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| 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, --where may it be? 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 for the battle. |
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| 25 For he hath stretched out his hand against *God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty: |
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| 26 He runneth against him, with outstretched neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers; |
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| 27 For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his flanks. |
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| 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps. |
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| 29 He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon 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 his mouth shall he go away. |
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| 31 Let him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense; |
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| 32 It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green. |
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| 33 He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive. |
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| 34 For the family of the ungodly 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 belly prepareth deceit. |
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