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15:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,
15:2 Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?
15:3 Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?
15:4 Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
15:5 For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.
15:6 Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.
15:7 Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?
15:8 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?
15:9 What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?
15:10 With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.
15:11 Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?
15:12 Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,
15:13 That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?
15:14 What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?
15:15 Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.
15:16 How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
15:17 I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:
15:18 Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:
15:19 To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them.
15:20 The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.
15:21 A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.
15:22 He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.
15:23 He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
15:24 Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.
15:25 For he hath stretched out his hand against GOD, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.
15:26 Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.
15:27 Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.
15:28 Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,
15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.
15:30 He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.
15:31 He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.
15:32 His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.
15:33 God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.
15:34 For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.
15:35 For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.