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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Eliphaz from Teman responded: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Should he engage in unprofitable argument, or give a speech that benefits no one? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Were you the first person to be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Have you listened in on God's secret council? Have you limited wisdom only to yourself? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9What do you know that we don't know, or that you understand and that isn't clear to us? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far older than your father. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Why have your emotions carried you away? And why do your eyes flash |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?" |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"I'll tell you what, listen to me! Let me relate what I've seen, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18which is what wise men have explained, who didn't withhold anything from their ancestors. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19To them alone was the land given, when no invader passed through their midst. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"The wicked person writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Terrifying sounds ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack him. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He does not believe he will escape darkness; he is destined for the sword. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He wanders around for food—where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"For he has raised his fist against God, defying the Almighty. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26He defiantly ran against him carrying his thick, reinforced shield. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Though he covered his face with fat, and is grossly overweight at the waist, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"He won't become rich and his wealth won't last; he won't expand his holdings to cover the land. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Let him not trust in a worthless speech. He leads only himself astray, for emptiness will be his reward. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32This will be accomplished before his time; his branches won't grow luxuriant. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33"He is like a vine that drops its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that loses its blossoms. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34For the company of the godless is desolation, and fire consumes the tents of those who bribe. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35For they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb is pregnant with deception." |
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