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sons come to honour, and he knoweth
it
not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth
it
not of
them.
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But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
CHAPTER 15
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill
his belly with the east wind?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith
he can do no good?
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Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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For thy mouth
uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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Thine own mouth condemneth
thee, and not I: yea, thine 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?
10
With us
are
both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder 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 thine 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 which is
born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight.
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How much more abominable and filthy
is
man, which drinketh
iniquity like water?
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I will shew 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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Unto 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 of 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 thereof 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 recompence.
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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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