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15:1  Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said:
15:2  “Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
15:3  Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
15:4  Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
15:5  For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
15:6  Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
15:7  “Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou made before the hills?
15:8  Hast thou heard the secret of God? And dost thou withhold wisdom for thyself?
15:9  What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
15:10  With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
15:11  Are the consolations of God small with thee? Is there any secret thing with thee?
15:12  Why doth thine heart carry thee away, and what do thine eyes wink at,
15:13  that thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
15:14  What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15:15  Behold, He putteth no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.
15:16  How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
15:17  “I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare,
15:18  what wise men have told from their fathers and have not hid it,
15:19  unto whom alone the earth was given and no stranger passed among them:
15:20  The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
15:21  A dreadful sound is in his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
15:22  He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.
15:23  He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
15:24  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle:
15:25  for he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty;
15:26  he runneth upon Him, even on His neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.
15:27  Because he covereth his face with his fatness and maketh dollops of fat on his flanks,
15:28  and he dwelleth in desolate cities and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps,
15:29  he shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue; neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
15:30  He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of His mouth shall he go away.
15:31  Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity, for vanity shall be his recompense.
15:32  It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
15:33  He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
15:34  For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
15:35  They conceive evil and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.”