Job:15

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* Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite , and said , * Should a wise man utter vain knowledge , and fill his belly with the east wind ? * Should he reason with useless talk ? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good ? * Yea , you cast off fear , and restrain prayer before God . * For your mouth utters yours iniquity , and you choose the tongue of the crafty . * Yours own mouth condemns you , and not I : yea , yours own lips testify against you . * Are you the first man that was born ? or were you made before the hills ? * Have you heard the secret of God ? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself ? * What know you , that we know not ? what understand you , which is not in us ? * With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men , much elder than your father . * Are the consolations of God small with you ? is there any secret thing with you ? * Why does yours heart carry you away ? and what do your eyes overlook , * That you turn your spirit against God , and let such words go out of your mouth ? * What is man , that he should be clean ? and he which is born of a woman , that he should be righteous ? * Behold , he puts no trust in his saints ; yea , the heavens are not clean in his sight . * How much more abominable and filthy is man , which drinks iniquity like water ? * I will show you , hear me ; and that which I have seen I will declare ; * Which wise men have told from their fathers , and have not hid it : * Unto whom alone the earth was given , and no stranger passed among them . * The wicked man labors with pain all his days , and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor . * A dreadful sound is in his ears : in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him . * He believes not that he shall return out of darkness , and he is waited for of the sword . * He wanders abroad for bread , saying , Where is it ? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand . * Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid ; they shall prevail against him , as a king ready to the battle . * For he stretches out his hand against God , and strengthens himself against the Almighty . * He runs upon him , even on his neck , upon the thick bosses of his bucklers : * Because he covers his face with his fatness , and makes fatness on his flanks . * And he dwells in desolate cities , and in houses which no man inhabits , which are ready to become heaps . * He shall not be rich , neither shall his substance continue , neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth . * 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 . * Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity : for vanity shall be his recompence . * It shall be accomplished before his time , and his branch shall not be green . * He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine , and shall cast off his flower as the olive . * For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate , and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery . * They conceive mischief , and bring forth vanity , and their belly prepares deceit .

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