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15 : 1 ThenEliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
15 : 2 Shoulda wise man answer withwindy knowledge,and fill hisbelly withthe east wind?
15 : 3 Should he argue in unprofitable talk,or in words with which he can do no good?
15 : 4 But you are doing away with the fear of Godand hindering meditation before God.
15 : 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth,and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
15 : 6 Yourown mouth condemns you, and not I;your own lips testify against you.
15 : 7 Are you the first man who was born?Orwere you brought forthbefore the hills?
15 : 8 Have you listened inthe council of God?And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
15 : 9 What do you know that we do not know?What do you understand that is not clear to us?
15 : 10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,older than your father.
15 : 11 Are the comforts of God too small for you,or the word that deals gently with you?
15 : 12 Why does your heart carry you away,and why do your eyes flash,
15 : 13 that you turn yourspirit against Godand bring such words out of your mouth?
15 : 14 What is man,that he can be pure?Or he who isborn of a woman, that he can be righteous?
15 : 15 Behold, Godputs no trust in hisholy ones,and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
15 : 16 how much less one who is abominable andcorrupt,a man whodrinks injustice like water!
15 : 17 I will show you; hear me,and what I have seen I will declare
15 : 18 (what wise men have told,without hiding itfrom their fathers,
15 : 19 to whom alone the land was given,and nostranger passed among them).
15 : 20 The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,through all theyears that are laid up forthe ruthless.
15 : 21 Dreadful sounds are in his ears;inprosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
15 : 22 He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,and he is marked for the sword.
15 : 23 Hewanders abroad for bread, saying,Where is it?He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
15 : 24 distress and anguish terrify him;theyprevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
15 : 25 Because he has stretched out his hand against Godand defies the Almighty,
15 : 26 runningstubbornly against himwith a thickly bossed shield;
15 : 27 because he hascovered his face with his fatand gathered fat upon his waist
15 : 28 and has lived in desolate cities,in houses that none should inhabit,which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
15 : 29 he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,nor will his possessions spread over the earth;
15 : 30 he will not depart from darkness;the flame will dry up his shoots,and bythe breath of his mouth he will depart.
15 : 31 Let him nottrust in emptiness, deceiving himself,for emptiness will be his payment.
15 : 32 It will be paid in fullbefore his time,and his branch will not be green.
15 : 33 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
15 : 34 Forthe company of the godless is barren,andfire consumes the tents of bribery.
15 : 35 Theyconceive trouble and give birth to evil,and theirwomb prepares deceit.