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Job 15

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And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

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Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,

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Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?

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Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before łGod.

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For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.

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Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.

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Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?

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Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?

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What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?

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Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.

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Are the consolations of łGod too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?

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Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?

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

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

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Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:

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How much less the abominable and corrupt, -- man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!

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I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;

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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;

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Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

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All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.

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The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.

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

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He wandereth abroad for bread, -- where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.

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For he hath stretched out his hand against łGod, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:

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He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;

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For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon [his] flanks.

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

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He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend 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 him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;

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It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.

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He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.

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For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

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

Job 16

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And Job answered and said,

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I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.

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Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

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I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

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[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].

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If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?

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But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;

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Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

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His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; [as] mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

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They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.

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łGod hath delivered me over to the iniquitous man, and hurled me into the hands of the wicked.

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I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

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His arrows encompass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

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He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.

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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.

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My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.

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O earth, cover not my blood, and let there be no place for my cry!

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Even now, behold, my Witness is in the heavens, and he that voucheth for me is in the heights.

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My friends are my mockers; mine eye poureth out tears unto +God.

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Oh that there were arbitration for a man with +God, as a son of man for his friend!

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For years [few] in number shall pass, -- and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

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