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| [1]THEN answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, |
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| [2]Should a spiritually minded man answer with knowledge and then become enraged? |
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| [3]Should he admonish with unprofitable talk, or with words that are worthless? |
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| [4]Yea, you also are discarding reverence, and talk too much in the presence of God. |
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| [5]For your mouth is accustomed to utter sinful things, and you choose the deceitful tongue of the crafty. |
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| [6]Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you in my presence. |
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| [7]Are you the first man that was born? Or were you conceived before the hills? |
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| [8]Have you heard of the secrets of God? Has his wisdom been revealed to you? |
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| [9]Or what do you know that we do not know? Or what do you under, stand that we do not understand? |
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| [10]Behold, there are among us the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older in days than your father. |
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| [11]Now talk less of God's threats, and speak comfortingly to yourself. |
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| [12]Why does your heart boast? And what do your eyes wink at, |
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| [13]That you boast in the presence of God, and let such words go out of your mouth? |
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| [14]What is man, that he should be innocent? Or he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? |
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| [15]Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. |
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| [16]Even though man should be rejected and afflicted, yet he shall drink iniquity like water |
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| [17]Hear me, I will show you; and that which I have seen I will repeat; |
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| [18]That which wise men have declared, and did not hide from their fathers; |
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| [19]To whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them. |
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| [20]The wicked man magnifies himself all his days, and the number of the years of the violent man is hidden. |
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| [21]A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him. |
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| [22]He does not believe that he shall be overthrown because of the darkness, and that he shall see the sword. |
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| [23]He flees because of the threat of judgment; he does not know that the day of darkness is already at his hand, |
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| [24]Trouble and anguish shall overtake him, like a king ready for the battle, |
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| [25]Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty. |
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| [26]He runs against him proudly, and strangles him, with the multitudes of his shields; |
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| [27]Because he has deceived himself with his wealth, and he places Pleiades above Aldebaran. |
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| [28]And he dwells in desolate cities, which no man has inhabited; then he prepares for war. |
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| [29]He shall not continue, neither shall his strength endure, nor shall his words be established upon the earth. |
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| [30]He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he be rejected. |
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| [31]Let him not trust in deceptive vanity, for his growth is in vain. |
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| [32]He shall dry up before his time, and the work of his hands shall not be found. |
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| [33]He shall shake off his unripe grapes, as the vine, and shall cast off his flowers as the olive tree. |
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| [34]For the congregation of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacle of the wicked. |
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| [35]They conceive mischief and bring forth deceit, and their belly is full of guile |
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