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

vw@Job:15:2 @ Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

vw@Job:15:3 @ Should he reason with speech that is not useful, or with words which do not profit?

vw@Job:15:4 @ Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain meditation before the Mighty God.

vw@Job:15:5 @ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

vw@Job:15:6 @ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you.

vw@Job:15:7 @ Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?

vw@Job:15:8 @ Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

vw@Job:15:9 @ What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us?

vw@Job:15:10 @ Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us, much older than your father.

vw@Job:15:11 @ Are the consolations of the Mighty God of little worth to you? Do you have secret words?

vw@Job:15:12 @ Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

vw@Job:15:13 @ that you turn your spirit against the Mighty God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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

vw@Job:15:15 @ If God puts no trust in His saints, and the heavens are not pure in His sight;

vw@Job:15:16 @ how much more abhorrent and corrupt is man, who drinks injustice like water!

vw@Job:15:17 @ I will tell you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare,

vw@Job:15:18 @ what wise men have told, not hiding anything received from their fathers,

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

vw@Job:15:20 @ The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, and the number of years is stored up for the ruthless.

vw@Job:15:21 @ Dreadful sounds are in his ears; during peace, devastation comes upon him.

vw@Job:15:22 @ He does not believe that he will return from darkness, for a sword watches for him.

vw@Job:15:23 @ He wanders about for bread, saying, where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

vw@Job:15:24 @ Adversity and distress terrify him; they overpower him, like a king ready for the attack.

vw@Job:15:25 @ For he stretches out his hand against the Mighty God, and acts defiantly against the Almighty,

vw@Job:15:26 @ running with stiff neck against Him with his thick, embossed shield.

vw@Job:15:27 @ He has covered his face with his fatness, and made his waist heavy with fat.

vw@Job:15:28 @ He dwells in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

vw@Job:15:29 @ He will not be rich, nor will his wealth endure, nor shall his possessions overspread the earth.

vw@Job:15:30 @ He shall not depart from darkness; the flame shall dry out his branches, and by the breath of His mouth he shall be removed.

vw@Job:15:31 @ Let not him who wanders about trust in vanity, for vanity shall be his recompense.

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

vw@Job:15:33 @ He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive.

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

vw@Job:15:35 @ They conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity; their womb prepares deceit.

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