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Job 15

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

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Then Eliphaz the Thæmanite answered and said,

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Will a wise man give for answer a [mere] breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

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reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit?

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Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?

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Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty.

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Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee.

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What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills?

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Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as [his] counsellor? and has wisdom come [only] to thee?

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For what knowest thou, that we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also?

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Truly among us [are] both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father.

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Thou hast been scourged for [but] few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily [and] extravagantly.

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What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes [aimed at],

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that thou hast vented [thy] rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from [thy] mouth?

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For who, being a mortal, [is such] that he shall be blameless? or, [who that is] born of a woman, that he should be just?

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Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him.

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Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

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But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen;

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things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden.

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To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them.

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All the life of the ungodly [is spent] in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.

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And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come.

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Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

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And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcase: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

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Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank.

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For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

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And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.

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For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs.

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And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away.

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Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth.

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Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

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Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity.

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His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish.

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And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.

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For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts.

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And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.

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