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| 1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: |
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| 2 Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge And fill [with] an east wind his belly |
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| 3 To reason with a word not useful And speeches no profit in them |
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| 4 Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God. |
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| 5 For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile. |
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| 6 Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee. |
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| 7 The first man art thou born And before the heights wast thou formed |
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| 8 Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom |
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| 9 What hast thou known, and we know not Understandest thou and it is not with us |
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| 10 Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us Greater than thy father [in] days. |
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| 11 Too few for thee are the comforts of God And a gentle word [is] with thee, |
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| 12 What doth thine heart take thee away And what are thine eyes high |
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| 13 For thou turnest against God thy spirit And hast brought out words from thy mouth: |
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| 14 What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman |
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| 15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. |
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| 16 Also surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness. |
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| 17 I shew thee hearken to me And this I have seen and declare: |
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| 18 Which the wise declare And have not hid from their fathers. |
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| 19 To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst: |
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| 20 'All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one. |
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| 21 A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him. |
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| 22 He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword. |
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| 23 He is wandering for bread 'Where [is] it ' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness. |
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| 24 Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster. |
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| 25 For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty. |
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| 26 He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields. |
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| 27 For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over [his] confidence. |
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| 28 And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps. |
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| 29 He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance. |
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| 30 He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth! |
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| 31 Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence. |
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| 32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. |
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| 33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom. |
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| 34 For the company of the profane [is] gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery. |
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| 35 To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit. |
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