“1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man
utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he
reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no
good? 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of
the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own
lips testify against thee. 7 [Art] thou the first man [that] was born?
or wast thou made before the hills? 8 Hast thou heard the secret of God?
and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? 9 What knowest thou, that we
know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us? 10 With us
[are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11 [Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret
thing with thee? 12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do
thy eyes wink at, 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and
lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth? 14 What [is] man, that he
should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be
righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight. 16 How much more abominable and
filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?”
“17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will
declare; 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not
hid [it]: 19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed
among them. 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and
the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. 21 A dreadful sound [is]
in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. 22 He
believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for
of the sword. 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]?
he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. 24 Trouble and
anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king
ready to the battle. 25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and
strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. 26 He runneth upon him,
[even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: 27 Because
he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on
[his] flanks. 28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses
which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. 29 He shall
not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he
prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. 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. 31 Let not him that is deceived trust in
vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. 32 It shall be accomplished
before his time, and his branch shall not be green. 33 He shall shake
off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the
olive. 34 For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and
fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. 35 They conceive
mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.”
(Job 15:1-35 AV)
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