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Job 15:1 Then answered
Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Job 15:2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with
the east wind?
Job 15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches
wherewith he can do no good?
Job 15:4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Job 15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the
tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips
testify against thee.
Job 15:7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before
the hills?
Job 15:8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom
to thyself?
Job 15:9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou,
which is not in us?
Job 15:10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder
than thy father.
Job 15:11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret
thing with thee?
Job 15:12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink
at,
Job 15:13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words
go out of thy mouth?
Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a
woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are
not clean in his sight.
Job 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh
iniquity like water?
Job 15:17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will
declare;
Job 15:18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid
it:
Job 15:19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed
among them.
Job 15:20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number
of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Job 15:21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer
shall come upon him.
Job 15:22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is
waited for of the sword.
Job 15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth
that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Job 15:24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail
against him, as a king ready to the battle.
Job 15:25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth
himself against the Almighty.
Job 15:26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of
his bucklers:
Job 15:27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh
collops of fat on his flanks.
Job 15:28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man
inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
Job 15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
Job 15:30 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.
Job 15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall
be his recompence.
Job 15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall
not be green.
Job 15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast
off his flower as the olive.
Job 15:34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire
shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly
prepareth deceit. |