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