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Job - ch 15 v 1 - 20
- Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
- Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
- Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
- For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
- "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
- Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
- With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.
- Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
- Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
- That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
- What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
- how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
- "I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:
- (Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;
- to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
- the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
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