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| [1]And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: -- |
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| [2]Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly? |
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| [3]To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them? |
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| [4]Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God. |
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| [5]For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile. |
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| [6]Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee. |
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| [7]The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed? |
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| [8]Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom? |
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| [9]What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us? |
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| [10]Both the gray-headed And the very aged [are] among us -- Greater than thy father [in] days. |
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| [11]Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word [is] with thee, |
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| [12]What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high? |
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| [13]For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth: |
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| [14]What [is] man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? |
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| [15]Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. |
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| [16]Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness. |
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| [17]I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare: |
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| [18]Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers. |
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| [19]To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst: |
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| [20]`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one. |
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| [21]A fearful voice [is] in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him. |
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| [22]He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched [is] he for the sword. |
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| [23]He is wandering for bread -- `Where [is] it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness. |
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| [24]Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster. |
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| [25]For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty. |
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| [26]He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields. |
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| [27]For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over [his] confidence. |
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| [28]And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps. |
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| [29]He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance. |
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| [30]He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth! |
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| [31]Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence. |
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| [32]Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. |
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| [33]He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom. |
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| [34]For the company of the profane [is] gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery. |
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| [35]To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit. |
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