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| 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: | 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 2"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind? | 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 3Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them? | 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 4But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God. | 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 5Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty. | 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you. | 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 7"Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? | 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 8Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? | 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 9What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand? | 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father. | 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 11Are God's consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you? | 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash, | 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth? | 13[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? | 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes, | 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water! | 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 17"I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare, | 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 18what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors, | 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 19to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them. | 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant. | 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him. | 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword; | 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 23he wanders about--food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. | 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack, | 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 25for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty, | 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield! | 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 27Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat, | 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps. | 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land. | 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth. | 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 31Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward. | 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 32Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish. | 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 33Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms. | 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 34For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes. | 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
| 35They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception." | 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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