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15:1  Eliphaz answered:
15:2  Will the wise respond with windy knowledge and fill their belly with the east wind?
15:3  Will they argue with a word that has no benefit and with unprofitable words?
15:4  You are truly making religion ineffective and restraining meditation before God.
15:5  Your mouth multiplies your sins a thousand times; you opt for a clever tongue.
15:6  Your mouth condemns you, not I; your lips argue against you.
15:7  Were you born the first Adam, brought forth before the hills?
15:8  Did you listen in God’s council; is wisdom limited to you?
15:9  What do you know that we don’t know; what do you understand that isn’t among us?
15:10  Both the graybeard and the aged are with us; those much older than your father.
15:11  Are God’s comforts not enough for you, a word spoken gently with you?
15:12  Why has your mind seized you, why have your eyes flashed,
15:13  so that you return your breath to God and utter such words from your mouth?
15:14  What are humans that they might be pure, and those born of woman that they might be innocent?
15:15  If he doesn’t trust his holy ones and the heavens aren’t pure in his eyes,
15:16  how much less those who are abominable and corrupt, for they drink sin like water.
15:17  Listen to me; I will argue with you; what I’ve seen, I will declare to you;
15:18  what the wise have told and have not concealed from their family,
15:19  to whom alone the earth was given and no stranger passed in their midst.
15:20  All the days of the wicked are painful; the number of years reserved for the hateful;
15:21  a sound of terror pierces their ears; when safe, raiders overtake them.
15:22  They can’t count on turning away from darkness; they are destined for a sword.
15:23  They wander about for bread. “Where is it?” They know that their day of darkness is fixed.
15:24  Adversity and stress scare them, master them like a king ready to strike;
15:25  for they raise a fist against God and try to overpower the Almighty.
15:26  They run toward him aggressively, with a massive and strong shield.
15:27  They cover their face with grease and make their loins gross.
15:28  They lived in ruined cities, unoccupied houses that turn to rubble.
15:29  They won’t get rich; their wealth won’t last; their property won’t extend over the earth.
15:30  They can’t turn away from darkness; a flame will dry out their shoots, and they will be taken away by the wind from his mouth.
15:31  They shouldn’t trust in what has no worth, for their reward will be worthless.
15:32  Before their branch is formed, before it is green,
15:33  like the vine, they will drop early grapes and cast off their blossoms like the olive.
15:34  The ruthless gang is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribers.
15:35  They conceive toil and give birth to sorrow; their belly establishes deceit.