Chapter 15

  Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,  

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  Should a wise men utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?  

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  Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?  

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  Yes, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.  

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  For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.  

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  Thy own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yes, thy own lips testify against thee.  

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  Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?  

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  Hast thou heard the secret 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 gray headed and very aged men, much older than thy father.  

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  Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?  

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  Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,  

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  That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?  

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  What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?  

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  Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.  

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  How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?  

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  I will show thee, hear 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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  To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.  

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  The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.  

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  A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.  

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  He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.  

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  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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  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.  

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  For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.  

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  He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:  

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  Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.  

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  And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.  

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  He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection of it upon 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 not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.  

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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 congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.  

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  They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.  

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