Job 15

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¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded, ✦ ²“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind? ✦ ³“Should he argue with useless talk, Or with words which do not benefit? ✦ ⁴“Indeed, you do away with reverence, And hinder meditation before God. ✦ ⁵“For your wrongdoing teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the cunning. ✦ ⁶“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; And your own lips testify against you. ✦ ⁷¶“Were you the first person to be born, Or were you brought forth before the hills? ✦ ⁸“Do you hear the secret discussion of God, And limit wisdom to yourself? ✦ ⁹“What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that we do not? ✦ ¹⁰“Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Older than your father. ✦ ¹¹“Are the consolations of God too little for you, Or the word spoken gently to you? ✦ ¹²“Why does your heart take you away? And why do your eyes wink, ✦ ¹³That you can turn your spirit against God And produce such words from your mouth? ✦ ¹⁴“What is man, that he would be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he would be righteous? ✦ ¹⁵“Behold, He has no trust in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight; ✦ ¹⁶How much less one who is detestable and corrupt: A person who drinks malice like water! ✦ ¹⁷¶“I will tell you, listen to me; And what I have seen I will also declare; ✦ ¹⁸What wise people have told, And have not concealed from their fathers, ✦ ¹⁹To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them. ✦ ²⁰“The wicked person writhes in pain all his days, And the years reserved for the ruthless are numbered. ✦ ²¹“Sounds of terror are in his ears; While he is at peace the destroyer comes upon him. ✦ ²²“He does not believe that he will return from darkness, And he is destined for the sword. ✦ ²³“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is at hand. ✦ ²⁴“Distress and anguish terrify him, They overpower him like a king ready for the attack, ✦ ²⁵Because he has reached out with his hand against God, And is arrogant toward the Almighty. ✦ ²⁶“He rushes headlong at Him With his massive shield. ✦ ²⁷“For he has covered his face with his fat, And put fat on his waist. ✦ ²⁸“He has lived in desolate cities, In houses no one would inhabit, Which are destined to become ruins. ✦ ²⁹“He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure; And his property will not stretch out on the earth. ✦ ³⁰“He will not escape from darkness; The flame will dry up his shoot, And he will go away by the breath of His mouth. ✦ ³¹“Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For his reward will be emptiness. ✦ ³²“It will be accomplished before his time, And his palm branch will not be green. ✦ ³³“He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine, And will cast off his flower like the olive tree. ✦ ³⁴“For the company of the godless is barren, And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt. ✦ ³⁵“They conceive harm and give birth to wrongdoing, And their mind prepares deception.” ✦

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