acv - 15

acv@Job:15:1 @ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

acv@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

acv@Job:15:3 @ Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

acv@Job:15:4 @ Yea, thou do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

acv@Job:15:5 @ For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty.

acv@Job:15:6 @ Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I. Yes, thine own lips testify against thee.

acv@Job:15:7 @ Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills?

acv@Job:15:8 @ Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?

acv@Job:15:9 @ What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, which is not in us?

acv@Job:15:10 @ With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.

acv@Job:15:11 @ Are the consolations of God too small for thee, even the word that is gentle toward thee?

acv@Job:15:12 @ Why does thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

acv@Job:15:13 @ that against God thou turn thy spirit, and let words go out of thy mouth?

acv@Job:15:14 @ What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

acv@Job:15:15 @ Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

acv@Job:15:16 @ How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

acv@Job:15:17 @ I will show thee. Hear thou me, and that which I have seen I will declare,

acv@Job:15:18 @ which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it,

acv@Job:15:19 @ to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:

acv@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

acv@Job:15:21 @ A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

acv@Job:15:22 @ He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.

acv@Job:15:23 @ He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

acv@Job:15:24 @ Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.

acv@Job:15:25 @ Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.

acv@Job:15:26 @ He runs upon him with a [stiff] neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers,

acv@Job:15:27 @ because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins.

acv@Job:15:28 @ And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

acv@Job:15:29 @ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

acv@Job:15:30 @ He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.

acv@Job:15:31 @ Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense.

acv@Job:15:32 @ It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

acv@Job:15:33 @ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

acv@Job:15:34 @ For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

acv@Job:15:35 @ They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.

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