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Job 15

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  1. Job 15:1

    Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

  2. Job 15:2

    Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

  3. Job 15:3

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

  4. Job 15:4

    Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

  5. Job 15:5

    For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

  6. Job 15:6

    Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

  7. Job 15:7

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

  8. Job 15:8

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

  9. Job 15:9

    What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

  10. Job 15:10

    With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

  11. Job 15:11

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

  12. Job 15:12

    Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

  13. Job 15:13

    That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

  14. Job 15:14

    What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

  15. Job 15:15

    Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

  16. Job 15:16

    How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

  17. Job 15:17

    I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

  18. Job 15:18

    Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

  19. Job 15:19

    Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

  20. Job 15:20

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

  21. Job 15:21

    A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

  22. Job 15:22

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

  23. Job 15:23

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

  24. Job 15:24

    Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

  25. Job 15:25

    For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

  26. Job 15:26

    He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

  27. Job 15:27

    Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

  28. Job 15:28

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

  29. Job 15:29

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

  30. Job 15:30

    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. Job 15:31

    Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

  32. Job 15:32

    It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

  33. Job 15:33

    He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

  34. Job 15:34

    For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

  35. Job 15:35

    They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.