📖 Job 15
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Then aunswered Eliphaz the Themanite, and saide:
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Shall a wyse mans aunswere be as the winde, and fill a mans belly as it were with the winde of the east?
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Shall he reproue with a worde that is nothing worth, & speake the thinges which can do no good?
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Surely thou hast cast of feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
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For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie.
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Thyne owne mouth condempneth thee, and not I: yea, thyne owne lippes shape an aunswere against thee.
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Art thou the first man that euer was borne? or wast thou made before the hils?
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Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God? and doest thou restraine wysdome to thee?
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What knowest thou, that we knowe not? And what vnderstandest thou, but we can the same?
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With vs are both olde and aged men, yea such as haue liued longer then thy father.
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Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? with thee is a lying worde.
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Why doth thyne heart so bewitche thee? And wherefore winckest thou with thyne eyes,
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That thy minde is so pufte vp against God, and lettest such wordes go out of thy mouth?
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What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, whereby he might be righteous?
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Beholde he doth not trust his sainctes, yea, the very heauens are not cleane in his sight:
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How much more then an abhominable and vyle man, which drincketh wickednesse like water.
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I will tel thee, heare me, and I will shewe thee that I haue seene:
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Which wyse men haue tolde, and haue not hid that which they receaued from theyr fathers:
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Unto whom alone the earth was geue, and no straunger went among them.
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The vngodly soroweth all the dayes of his lyfe as it were a woman with childe, and the number of a tirauntes yeres is vnknowen.
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A feareful sounde is euer in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him.
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He beleueth neuer to be deliuered out of darknesse: for the sworde is alwayes before his eyes.
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He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande.
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Trouble and anguishe wil make him afrayde, and compasse him about, as is a king in the middest of an armie.
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For he hath stretched out his hande against God, and armed him selfe against the almightie.
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He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiffe necke fighteth he against him.
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Where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lyking.
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Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones.
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He shall not be riche, neither shall his substaunce continue, neither shal the prosperitie thereof be prolonged vpon earth.
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He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse, the flame shal drye vp his branches, with the blast of ye mouth of God shall he be taken away.
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He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie, and yet vanitie shalbe his recompence.
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He shal perishe afore his time be worne out, and his braunche shall not be greene.
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He shalbe plucked of as an vntimely grape from the vine, and shall let his floure fall as the oliue doth.
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For the congregation of hypocrites shalbe desolate, and the fire shall consume the houses of such as are greedie to receaue giftes.
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He conceaueth trauaile, and beareth vanitie, and their body bringeth foorth disceyte.