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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Were 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 God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself? |
| 9[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? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Are God's consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness 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] | 13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape 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 places 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 abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water! |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors, |
| 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] | 20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword; |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23he wanders about--food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield! |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat, |
| 28[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. |
| 29[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. |
| 30[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. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish. |
| 33[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. |
| 34[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. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception." |
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