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Job - ch 15 v 1 - 20
- And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
- Doth a wise man answer `with' vain knowledge? And fill `with' an east wind his belly?
- To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?
- Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
- For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.
- Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.
- The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?
- Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?
- What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?
- Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days.
- Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word `is' with thee,
- What -- doth thine heart take thee away? And what -- are thine eyes high?
- For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:
- What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?
- Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.
- Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
- I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:
- Which the wise declare -- And have not hid -- from their fathers.
- To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
- `All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.
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