The Book of Job 15

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1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said ⚑

2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge and fill his belly with the east wind ⚑

3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches wherewith he can do no good ⚑

4 Yea thou castest off fear and restrainest prayer before God ⚑

5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty ⚑

6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee and not I yea thine own lips testify against thee ⚑

7 Art thou the first man that was born or wast thou made before the hills ⚑

8 Hast thou heard the secret of God and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself ⚑

9 What knowest thou that we know not what understandest thou which is not in us ⚑

10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men much elder than thy father ⚑

11 Are the consolations of God small with thee is there any secret thing with thee ⚑

12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away and what do thy eyes wink at ⚑

13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God and lettest such words go out of thy mouth ⚑

14 What is man that he should be clean and he which is born of a woman that he should be righteous ⚑

15 Behold he putteth no trust in his saints yea the heavens are not clean in his sight ⚑

16 How much more abominable and filthy is man which drinketh iniquity like water ⚑

17 I will shew thee hear me and that which I have seen I will declare ⚑

18 Which wise men have told from their fathers and have not hid it ⚑

19 Unto whom alone the earth was given and no stranger passed among them ⚑

20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor ⚑

21 A dreadful sound is in his ears in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him ⚑

22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness and he is waited for of the sword ⚑

23 He wandereth abroad for bread saying Where is it he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand ⚑

24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid they shall prevail against him as a king ready to the battle ⚑

25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty ⚑

26 He runneth upon him even on his neck upon the thick bosses of his bucklers ⚑

27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness and maketh collops of fat on his flanks ⚑

28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities and in houses which no man inhabiteth which are ready to become heaps ⚑

29 He shall not be rich neither shall his substance continue neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth ⚑

30 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 ⚑

31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity for vanity shall be his recompence ⚑

32 It shall be accomplished before his time and his branch shall not be green ⚑

33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine and shall cast off his flower as the olive ⚑

34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery ⚑

35 They conceive mischief and bring forth vanity and their belly prepareth deceit ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

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