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            <div class="label">15</div><div class="s"><span class="heading">Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">And fill himself with the east wind?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Should he argue with useless talk,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">Or with words which are not profitable?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Indeed, you do away with reverence</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">And hinder meditation before God.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For your guilt teaches your mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">And you choose the language of the crafty.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">And your own lips testify against you.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Were you the first man to be born,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">Or were you brought forth before the hills?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do you hear the secret counsel of God,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">And limit wisdom to yourself?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What do you know that we do not know?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">What</span></span><span class="content"> do you understand that we do not?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">Older than your father.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Are the consolations of God too small for you,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">Even the word </span><span class="it"><span class="content">spoken</span></span><span class="content"> gently with you?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Why does your heart carry you away?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">And why do your eyes flash,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">That you should turn your spirit against God</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">And allow </span><span class="it"><span class="content">such</span></span><span class="content"> words to go out of your mouth?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">What is man, that he should be pure,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">And the heavens are not pure in His sight;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">How much less one who is detestable and corrupt,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">Man, who drinks iniquity like water!</span></span></div><div class="s"><span class="heading">What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life</span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will tell you, listen to me;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">And what I have seen I will also declare;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">What wise men have told,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">And have not concealed from their fathers,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">To whom alone the land was given,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">And no alien passed among them.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The wicked man writhes in pain all </span><span class="it"><span class="content">his</span></span><span class="content"> days,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">And numbered are the years stored up for the ruthless.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Sounds of terror are in his ears;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He does not believe that he will return from darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">And he is destined for the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He wanders about for food, saying, &#8216;Where is it?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Distress and anguish terrify him,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Because he has stretched out his hand against God</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">And conducts himself arrogantly against the Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He rushes headlong at Him</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">With his massive shield.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For he has covered his face with his fat</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">And made his thighs heavy with flesh.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">He has lived in desolate cities,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">In houses no one would inhabit,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">Which are destined to become ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">And his grain will not bend down to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">He will not escape from darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">The flame will wither his shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">For emptiness will be his reward.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">It will be accomplished before his time,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">And his palm branch will not be green.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For the company of the godless is barren,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt.</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity,</span></span></div><div class="q"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="content">And their mind prepares deception.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded,
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge
And fill himself with the east wind?
Should he argue with useless talk,
Or with words which are not profitable?
Indeed, you do away with reverence
And hinder meditation before God.
For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose the language of the crafty.
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
And your own lips testify against you.
“Were you the first man to be born,
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
Do you hear the secret counsel of God,
And limit wisdom to yourself?
What do you know that we do not know?
What do you understand that we do not?
Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
Older than your father.
Are the consolations of God too small for you,
Even the word spoken gently with you?
Why does your heart carry you away?
And why do your eyes flash,
That you should turn your spirit against God
And allow such words to go out of your mouth?
What is man, that he should be pure,
Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight;
How much less one who is detestable and corrupt,
Man, who drinks iniquity like water!

“I will tell you, listen to me;
And what I have seen I will also declare;
What wise men have told,
And have not concealed from their fathers,
To whom alone the land was given,
And no alien passed among them.
The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,
And numbered are the years stored up for the ruthless.
Sounds of terror are in his ears;
While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.
He does not believe that he will return from darkness,
And he is destined for the sword.
He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.
Distress and anguish terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,
Because he has stretched out his hand against God
And conducts himself arrogantly against the Almighty.
He rushes headlong at Him
With his massive shield.
For he has covered his face with his fat
And made his thighs heavy with flesh.
He has lived in desolate cities,
In houses no one would inhabit,
Which are destined to become ruins.
He will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;
And his grain will not bend down to the ground.
He will not escape from darkness;
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For emptiness will be his reward.
It will be accomplished before his time,
And his palm branch will not be green.
He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,
And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.
For the company of the godless is barren,
And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt.
They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity,
And their mind prepares deception.”

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