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Job 15
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| 15:1
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, |
 (15:1-35) "Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said....."
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| 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east
wind? |
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can
do no good? |
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Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. |
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For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the
crafty. |
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Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify
against thee. |
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Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? |
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Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to
thyself? |
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What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not
in us? |
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| 15:10
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy
father. |
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Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing
with thee? |
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Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, |
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That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of
thy mouth? |
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What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman,
that he should be righteous? |
 (15:14) "What is man ... that he should be righteous?"
Has there ever been a righteous person?
Who (or what) is a ransom for the righteous?
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| 15:15
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean
in his sight. |
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How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like
water? |
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I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; |
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: |
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Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. |
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years
is hidden to the oppressor. |
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| 15:21
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come
upon him. |
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| 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited
for of the sword. |
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He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the
day of darkness is ready at his hand. |
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| 15:24
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him,
as a king ready to the battle. |
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| 15:25
For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself
against the Almighty. |
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He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his
bucklers: |
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| 15:27
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat
on his flanks. |
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| 15:28
And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth,
which are ready to become heaps. |
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| 15:29
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall
he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. |
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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. |
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| 15:31
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his
recompence. |
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| 15:32
It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be
green. |
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| 15:33
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his
flower as the olive. |
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| 15:34
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall
consume the tabernacles of bribery. |
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| 15:35
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth
deceit.
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