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Job 15 📜 📕 ↷
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
1 BUT Eliphaz the Themanite answering, said:📜💬📚
2 Will a wise man answer as it were speaking into the wind, and fill his stomach with burning?📜💬📚
3 Thou reprovest him in words, that is not equal to thee, & speakest that which is not expedient for thee.📜💬📚
4 As much as is in thee, thou hast evacuated fear, and hast taken away prayers before God.📜💬📚
5 For thine iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou doest imitate the tongue of blasphemers.📜💬📚
6 Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy lips shall answer thee.📜💬📚
7 Wast thou the first man born, and formed before the little hills?📜💬📚
8 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?📜💬📚
9 What doest thou know, that we are ignorant of? What doest thou understand that we know not?📜💬📚
10 There are both old men & ancients among us, much elder than thy fathers.📜💬📚
11 Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? But thy naughty words hinder it.📜💬📚
12 Why doth thy heart elevate thee, & as thinking great things, hast thou astonished eyes?📜💬📚
13 Why doeth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth?📜💬📚
14 What is man, that he should be without spot, & that the born of a woman should appear just?📜💬📚
15 Behold among his saints none is immutable, & the heavens are not clean in his sight.📜💬📚
16 How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity as it were water?📜💬📚
17 I will shew thee, hear me: that which I have seen I will tell thee.📜💬📚
18 Wise men confess and hide not their fathers:📜💬📚
19 to whom only the earth was given, and stranger hath not passed by them.📜💬📚
20 The impious is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.📜💬📚
21 The sound of terror is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.📜💬📚
22 He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.📜💬📚
23 When he shall move himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is prepared in his hand.📜💬📚
24 Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall compass him, as a king that is prepared to battle.📜💬📚
25 For he hath stretched his hand against God, & is strengthened against the Omnipotent.📜💬📚
26 He hath run against him with neck set upright, and is armed with a fat neck.📜💬📚
27 Fatness hath covered his face, and from his sides there hangeth tallow.📜💬📚
28 He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses, that are brought into hillocks.📜💬📚
29 He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he put his root in the earth.📜💬📚
30 He shall not depart out of darkness, the flame shall dry his boughs, and he shall be taken away with the spirit of his own mouth.📜💬📚
31 He shall not believe, vainly deceived with error, that he may be redeemed with any price.📜💬📚
32 Before his days be accomplished, he shall perish: and his hands shall wither.📜💬📚
33 His cluster in the first flower shall be hurt as a vine, and as the olive tree casting his flower.📜💬📚
34 For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, which gladly take gifts.📜💬📚
35 He conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth guiles.📜💬📚
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