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3.2 KiB
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116 lines
3.2 KiB
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Eliphaz Accuses: Job Does Not Fear God
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# Chapter 15
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1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
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2. "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge,
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and fill his belly with the east wind?
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3. Should he argue in unprofitable talk,
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or in words with which he can do no good?
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4. But you are doing away with the fear of God
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and hindering meditation before God.
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5. For your iniquity teaches your mouth,
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and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
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6. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
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your own lips testify against you.
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7. "Are you the first man who was born?
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Or were you brought forth before the hills?
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8. Have you listened in the council of God?
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And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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9. What do you know that we do not know?
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What do you understand that is not clear to us?
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10. Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
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older than your father.
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11. Are the comforts of God too small for you,
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or the word that deals gently with you?
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12. Why does your heart carry you away,
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and why do your eyes flash,
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13. that you turn your spirit against God
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and bring such words out of your mouth?
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14. What is man, that he can be pure?
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Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
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15. Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones,
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and the heavens are not pure in his sight;
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16. how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
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a man who drinks injustice like water!
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17. "I will show you; hear me,
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and what I have seen I will declare
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18. (what wise men have told,
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without hiding it from their fathers,
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19. to whom alone the land was given,
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and no stranger passed among them).
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20. The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
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through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
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21. Dreadful sounds are in his ears;
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in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
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22. He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
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and he is marked for the sword.
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23. He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?'
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He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
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24. distress and anguish terrify him;
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they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.
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25. Because he has stretched out his hand against God
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and defies the Almighty,
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26. running stubbornly against him
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with a thickly bossed shield;
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27. because he has covered his face with his fat
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and gathered fat upon his waist
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28. and has lived in desolate cities,
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in houses that none should inhabit,
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which were ready to become heaps of ruins;
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29. he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure,
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nor will his possessions spread over the earth;
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30. he will not depart from darkness;
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the flame will dry up his shoots,
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and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.
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31. Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,
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for emptiness will be his payment.
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32. It will be paid in full before his time,
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and his branch will not be green.
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33. He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine,
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and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.
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34. For the company of the godless is barren,
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and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
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35. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil,
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and their womb prepares deceit."
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