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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, (15:1)

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? (15:2)

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? (15:3)

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God (15:4)

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty (15:5)

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee (15:6)

[Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills? (15:7)

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? (15:8)

What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us? (15:9)

With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father (15:10)

[Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? (15:11)

Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, (15:12)

That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth? (15:13)

What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous? (15:14)

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight (15:15)

How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water? (15:16)

I will show thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare; (15:17)

Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]: (15:18)

Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them (15:19)

The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor (15:20)

A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him (15:21)

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword (15:22)

He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand (15:23)

Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle (15:24)

For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty (15:25)

He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: (15:26)

Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks (15:27)

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps (15:28)

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth (15:29)

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 (15:30)

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense (15:31)

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green (15:32)

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive (15:33)

For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery (15:34)

They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit (15:35)

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