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Job 15 (AMP)

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¹ THEN ELIPHAZ the Temanite answered , ² Should a wise man utter such windy knowledge and fill himself with the east wind ? ³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk? Or with speeches with which he can do no good? ⁴ Indeed, you are doing away with fear, and you are hindering and diminishing meditation and devotion before God. ⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. ⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; yes, your own lips testify against you. ⁷ Are you the first man that was born ? Or were you created before the hills? ⁸ Were you present to hear the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? ⁹ What do you know that we know not? What do you understand that is not equally clear to us? ¹⁰ Among us are both the gray-haired and the aged, older than your father by far. ¹¹ Are God's consolations too trivial for you? Is there any secret thing (any bosom sin) which you have not given up? were we too gentle toward you to be effective? ¹² Why does your heart carry you away ? And why do your eyes flash , ¹³ That you turn your spirit against God and let words go out of your mouth? ¹⁴ What is man, that he could be pure and clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be right and just? ¹⁵ Behold, puts no trust in His holy ones ; indeed, the heavens are not clean in His sight-- ¹⁶ How much less that which is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water? ¹⁷ I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will relate, ¹⁸ What wise men have not hid but have freely communicated; it was told to them by their fathers, ¹⁹ Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger intruded or passed among them . ²⁰ The wicked man suffers with torment all his days, through all the years that are numbered and laid up for him, the oppressor. ²¹ A sound of terrors is in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him . ²² He believes that he will not return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword . ²³ He wanders abroad for food, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already close upon him. ²⁴ Distress and anguish terrify him; they shall prevail against him, like a king ready for battle. ²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God and bids defiance and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty, ²⁶ Running stubbornly against Him with a thickly ornamented shield; ²⁷ Because he has covered his face with his fat, adding layers of fat on his loins , ²⁸ And has lived in desolate cities and in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps ; ²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his wealth last, neither shall his produce bend to the earth nor his possessions be extended on the earth. ³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness shall consume him as flame consumes a dry tree, and by the blast of His mouth he shall be swept away. ³¹ Let him not deceive himself and trust in vanity (emptiness, falseness, and futility), for these shall be his recompense . ³² It shall be accomplished and paid in full while he still lives, and his branch shall not be green . ³³ He shall fail to bring his grapes to maturity on the vine and shall cast off blossoms like the olive tree. ³⁴ For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery (wrong and injustice). ³⁵ They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity, and their inmost soul hatches deceit.