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15:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
15:2  “Should a wise man reply with empty knowledge and fill his lungs with the east wind?
15:3  Should he reason with unprofitable talk or with speeches with which he can do no good?
15:4  Yes, you cast off reverence and hinder prayer before God.
15:5  For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
15:6  Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.
15:7  “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?
15:8  Have you heard the counsel of God? And do you restrict wisdom to yourself?
15:9  What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us?
15:10  Both the gray-haired and very aged are among us— much older than your father.
15:11  Are the consolations of God too small for you? Or the word spoken gently to you?
15:12  Why does your heart carry you away? And what do your eyes wink at,
15:13  that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
15:14  “What is man that he should be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15:15  Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in His sight.
15:16  How much more abhorred and corrupt is man, who drinks iniquity like water!
15:17  “I will tell you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare,
15:18  what wise men have told, not hiding anything received from their fathers,
15:19  to whom alone the land was given, and no foreigner passed among them:
15:20  The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and numbered are the years stored up for the oppressor.
15:21  A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
15:22  He does not believe that he will return from darkness, and a sword awaits him.
15:23  He wanders about for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
15:24  Trouble and anguish will make him afraid; they will prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.
15:25  For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
15:26  He rushes upon Him, even on His neck, with his thick embossed shield.
15:27  “He has covered his face with his fatness and gathered fat upon his waist.
15:28  He dwells in desolate cities and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
15:29  He will not be rich, nor will his wealth continue, nor will his possessions spread over the earth.
15:30  He will not depart out of darkness; the flame will dry out his branches, and by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
15:31  Let him who is deceived not trust in futility, for futility will be his reward.
15:32  It will be accomplished before his time, and his branch will not be green.
15:33  He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and will cast off his blossom like the olive.
15:34  For the company of hypocrites will be desolate, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
15:35  They conceive mischief, and give birth to futility; their womb prepares deceit.”