Job:15

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* Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said : * Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge , and fill his belly with the east wind ? * Should he reason with speech that is not useful , or with words which do not profit ? * Yea , you cast off fear , and restrain meditation before the Mighty God . * For your iniquity teaches your mouth , and you choose the tongue of the crafty . * Your own mouth condemns you , and not I ; yea , your own lips testify against you . * Are you the first man who was born ? Or were you made before the hills ? * Have you heard the counsel of God ? Do you limit wisdom to yourself ? * What do you know that we do not know ? What do you understand that is not in us ? * Both the grayheaded and the aged are among us , much older than your father . * Are the consolations of the Mighty God of little worth to you ? Do you have secret words ? * Why does your heart carry you away , and what do your eyes wink at , * that you turn your spirit against the Mighty God , and let such words go out of your mouth ? * What is man , that he should be pure ? And he who is born of a woman , that he should be righteous ? * If God puts no trust in His saints , and the heavens are not pure in His sight ; * how much more abhorrent and corrupt is man , who drinks injustice like water ! * I will tell you ; hear me , and what I have seen I will declare , * what wise men have told , not hiding anything received from their fathers , * to whom alone the earth was given , and no stranger passed among them : * The wicked man writhes with pain all his days , and the number of years is stored up for the ruthless . * Dreadful sounds are in his ears ; during peace , devastation comes upon him . * He does not believe that he will return from darkness , for a sword watches for him . * He wanders about for bread , saying , where is it ? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand . * Adversity and distress terrify him ; they overpower him , like a king ready for the attack . * For he stretches out his hand against the Mighty God , and acts defiantly against the Almighty , * running with stiff neck against Him with his thick , embossed shield . * He has covered his face with his fatness , and made his waist heavy with fat . * He dwells in desolate cities , in houses which no one inhabits , which are ready to become heaps . * He will not be rich , nor will his wealth endure , nor shall his possessions overspread the earth . * He shall not depart from darkness ; the flame shall dry out his branches , and by the breath of His mouth he shall be removed . * Let not him who wanders about trust in vanity , for vanity shall be his recompense . * It shall be accomplished before his time , and his branch shall not be green . * He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine , and cast off his blossom like the olive . * For the company of hypocrites shall be barren , and fire will consume the tents of bribery . * They conceive trouble and bring forth iniquity ; their womb prepares deceit .

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