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Then answered[H6030]Eliphaz[H464] the Temanite[H8489], and said[H559],
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Should a wise man[H2450]utter[H6030]vain[H7307]knowledge[H1847], and fill[H4390] his belly[H990] with the east wind?[H6921]
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Should he reason[H3198] with unprofitable[H5532]talk?[H1697] or with speeches[H4405] wherewith he can do no good?[H3276]
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Yea, thou castest off[H6565]fear[H3374], and restrainest[H1639]prayer[H7881]before[H6440]God[H410].
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For thy mouth[H6310]uttereth[H502] thine iniquity[H5771], and thou choosest[H977] the tongue[H3956] of the crafty[H6175].
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Thine own mouth[H6310]condemneth[H7561] thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips[H8193]testify[H6030] against thee.
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Art thou the first[H7223]man[H120] that was born?[H3205] or wast thou made[H2342]before[H6440] the hills?[H1389]
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Hast thou heard[H8085] the secret[H5475] of God?[H433] and dost thou restrain[H1639]wisdom[H2451] to thyself?
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What knowest[H3045] thou, that we know[H3045] not? what understandest[H995] thou, which is not in us?
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With us are both the grayheaded[H7867] and very aged[H3453] men, much[H3524]elder[H3117] than thy father[H1].
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Are the consolations[H8575] of God[H410]small[H4592] with thee? is there any secret[H328]thing[H1697] with thee?
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Why doth thine heart[H3820] carry thee away?[H3947] and what do thy eyes[H5869] wink at[H7335],
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That thou turnest[H7725] thy spirit[H7307] against God[H410], and lettest such words[H4405] go out[H3318] of thy mouth?[H6310]
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What is man[H582], that he should be clean?[H2135] and he which is born[H3205] of a woman[H802], that he should be righteous?[H6663]
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Behold, he putteth no trust[H539] in his saints[H6918]; yea, the heavens[H8064] are not clean[H2141] in his sight[H5869].
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How much more abominable[H8581] and filthy[H444] is man[H376], which drinketh[H8354]iniquity[H5766] like water?[H4325]
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I will shew[H2331] thee, hear[H8085] me; and that which I have seen[H2372] I will declare[H5608];
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Which wise[H2450] men have told[H5046] from their fathers[H1], and have not hid[H3582] it:
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Unto whom alone the earth[H776] was given[H5414], and no stranger[H2114]passed[H5674]among[H8432] them.
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The wicked[H7563] man travaileth[H2342] with pain all his days[H3117], and the number[H4557] of years[H8141] is hidden[H6845] to the oppressor[H6184].
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A dreadful[H6343]sound[H6963] is in his ears[H241]: in prosperity[H7965] the destroyer[H7703] shall come[H935] upon him.
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He believeth[H539] not that he shall return[H7725] out of darkness[H2822], and he is waited[H6822] for of the sword[H2719].
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He wandereth abroad[H5074] for bread[H3899], saying, Where is it? he knoweth[H3045] that the day[H3117] of darkness[H2822] is ready[H3559] at his hand[H3027].
24Trouble[H6862] and anguish[H4691] shall make him afraid[H1204]; they shall prevail[H8630] against him, as a king[H4428]ready[H6264] to the battle[H3593].
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For he stretcheth out[H5186] his hand[H3027] against God[H410], and strengtheneth[H1396] himself against the Almighty[H7706].
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He runneth[H7323] upon him, even on his neck[H6677], upon the thick[H5672]bosses[H1354] of his bucklers[H4043]:
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Because he covereth[H3680] his face[H6440] with his fatness[H2459], and maketh[H6213] collops of fat[H6371] on his flanks[H3689].
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And he dwelleth[H7931] in desolate[H3582]cities[H5892], and in houses[H1004] which no man inhabiteth[H3427], which are ready[H6257] to become heaps[H1530].
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He shall not be rich[H6238], neither shall his substance[H2428]continue[H6965], neither shall he prolong[H5186] the perfection[H4512] thereof upon the earth[H776].
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He shall not depart[H5493] out of darkness[H2822]; the flame[H7957] shall dry up[H3001] his branches[H3127], and by the breath[H7307] of his mouth[H6310] shall he go away[H5493].
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Let not him that is deceived[H8582]trust[H539] in vanity[H7723]: for vanity[H7723] shall be his recompence[H8545].
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It shall be accomplished[H4390]before[H3808] his time[H3117], and his branch[H3712] shall not be green[H7488].
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He shall shake off[H2554] his unripe grape[H1154] as the vine[H1612], and shall cast off[H7993] his flower[H5328] as the olive[H2132].
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For the congregation[H5712] of hypocrites[H2611] shall be desolate[H1565], and fire[H784] shall consume[H398] the tabernacles[H168] of bribery[H7810].
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They conceive[H2029]mischief[H5999], and bring forth[H3205]vanity[H205], and their belly[H990]prepareth[H3559]deceit[H4820].