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\c 15
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\v 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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\q
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\v 2 "Should a wise man answer with useless knowledge
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\q and fill himself with the east wind?
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\q
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\v 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk
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\q or with speeches with which he can do no good?
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\q
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\v 4 Indeed, you diminish respect for God;
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\q you obstruct devotion to him,
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\q
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\v 5 for your iniquity teaches your mouth;
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\q you choose to have the tongue of a crafty man.
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\q
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\v 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;
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\q indeed, your own lips testify against you.
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\b
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\q
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\v 7 Are you the first man that was born?
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\q Were you brought into existence before the hills?
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\q
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\v 8 Have you heard the secret knowledge of God?
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\q Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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\q
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\v 9 What do you know that we do not know?
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\q What do you understand that is not also in us?
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\q
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\v 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men
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\q who are much older than your father.
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\q
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\v 11 Are the consolations of God too small for you,
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\q the words that are gentle toward you?
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\q
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\v 12 Why does your heart carry you away?
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\q Why do your eyes flash,
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\q
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\v 13 so that you turn your spirit against God
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\q and bring out such words from your mouth?
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\q
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\v 14 What is man that he should be clean?
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\q What is he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous?
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\q
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\v 15 See, God puts no trust even in his holy ones;
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\q indeed, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
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\q
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\v 16 how much less clean is one who is abominable and corrupt,
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\q a man who drinks iniquity like water!
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\b
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\q
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\v 17 I will show you; listen to me;
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\q I will announce to you the things I have seen,
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\q
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\v 18 the things that wise men have passed down from their fathers,
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\q the things that their ancestors did not hide.
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\q
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\v 19 These were their ancestors, to whom alone the land was given,
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\q and among whom no stranger ever passed.
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\q
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\v 20 The wicked man twists in pain all his days,
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\q the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor to suffer.
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\q
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\v 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears;
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\q while he is in prosperity, the destroyer will come upon him.
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\q
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\v 22 He does not think that he will return out of darkness;
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\q the sword waits for him.
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\q
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\v 23 He goes to various places for bread, saying, 'Where is it?'
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\q He knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
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\q
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\v 24 Distress and anguish make him afraid;
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\q they prevail against him, as a king ready for battle.
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\q
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\v 25 Because he has reached out with his hand against God
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\q and has behaved proudly against the Almighty,
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\q
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\v 26 this wicked man runs at God with a stiff neck,
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\q with a thick shield.
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\q
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\v 27 This is true, even though he has covered his face with his fat
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\q and gathered fat on his loins,
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\v 28 and has lived in desolate cities;
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\q in houses which no man inhabits now
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\q and which were ready to become heaps.
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\q
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\v 29 He will not be rich; his wealth will not last;
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\q not even his shadow will last on the earth.
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\q
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\v 30 He will not depart out of darkness;
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\f + \ft Several modern versions leave out \fqa He will not depart out of darkness \fqb , because they believe that this expression was mistakenly copied from 15:22. \f*
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\q a flame will dry up his stalks;
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\q at the breath of God's mouth he will go away.
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\q
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\v 31 Let him not trust in useless things, deceiving himself;
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\q for uselessness will be his reward.
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\q
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\v 32 It will happen before his time should come to die;
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\q his branch will not be green.
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\q
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\v 33 He will drop his unripe grapes like a grapevine;
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\q he will cast off his flowers like the olive tree.
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\q
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\v 34 For the company of godless people will be barren;
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\q fire will consume their tents of bribery.
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\q
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\v 35 They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity;
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\q their womb conceives deceit."
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