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         <div class="label">15</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eliphaz</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 replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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;Would a wise person answer with empty notions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.15.2"><span class="content">or fill their belly with the hot east wind?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">Would they argue with useless words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.15.3"><span class="content">with speeches that have no value?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">But you even undermine piety</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.15.4"><span class="content">and hinder devotion to God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">Your sin prompts your mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.15.5"><span class="content">you adopt the tongue of the crafty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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, not mine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.15.6"><span class="content">your own lips testify against you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><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;Are you the first man ever born?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.15.7"><span class="content">Were you brought forth before the hills?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 listen in on God&#8217;s council?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.15.8"><span class="content">Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.15.9"><span class="content">What insights do you have that we do not have?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">The gray-haired and the aged are on our side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.15.10"><span class="content">men even older than your father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 God&#8217;s consolations not enough for you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.15.11"><span class="content">words spoken gently to you?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 has your heart carried you away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.15.12"><span class="content">and why do your eyes flash,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">so that you vent your rage against God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.15.13"><span class="content">and pour out such words from your mouth?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><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">&#8220;What are mortals, that they could be pure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.15.14"><span class="content">or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">If God places no trust in his holy ones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.15.15"><span class="content">if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 mortals, who are vile and corrupt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.15.16"><span class="content">who drink up evil like water!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><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;Listen to me and I will explain to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.15.17"><span class="content">let me tell you what I have seen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 the wise have declared,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.15.18"><span class="content">hiding nothing received from their ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.15.19"><span class="content">when no foreigners moved among them):</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">All his days the wicked man suffers torment,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.15.20"><span class="content">the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">Terrifying sounds fill his ears;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.15.21"><span class="content">when all seems well, marauders attack him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 despairs of escaping the realm of darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.15.22"><span class="content">he is marked for the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 like a vulture;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.15.23"><span class="content">he knows the day of darkness is at hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 fill him with terror;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.15.24"><span class="content">troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 shakes his fist at God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.15.25"><span class="content">and vaunts himself against the Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">defiantly charging against him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.15.26"><span class="content">with a thick, strong shield.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><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">&#8220;Though his face is covered with fat</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.15.27"><span class="content">and his waist bulges with flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 will inhabit ruined towns</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">and houses where no one lives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.15.28"><span class="content">houses crumbling to rubble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.15.29"><span class="content">nor will his possessions spread over the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 the darkness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">a flame will wither his shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.15.30"><span class="content">and the breath of God&#8217;s mouth will carry him away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 deceive himself by trusting what is worthless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.15.31"><span class="content">for he will get nothing in return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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">Before his time he will wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOB.15.32"><span class="content">and his branches will not flourish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOB.15.33"><span class="content">like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 will be barren,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOB.15.34"><span class="content">and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><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 trouble and give birth to evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOB.15.35"><span class="content">their womb fashions deceit.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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