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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Distress and anguish terrify him, overwhelming him like a king poised to attack. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not overspread the land. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.” |
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