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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
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