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Iob 15

¹Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

²Should a wise man vtter vaine knowledge, and fill his belly with the East winde?

³Should hee reason with vnprofitable talke? or with speeches wherewith he can doe no good?

⁴Yea thou castest off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.

⁵For thy mouth vttereth thine iniquitie, and thou choosest the tongue of the craftie.

⁶Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine owne lippes testifie against thee.

⁷Art thou the first man that was borne? or wast thou made before the hilles?

⁸Hast thou heard the secret of God? and doest thou restraine wisedome to thy selfe?

⁹What knowest thou that we know not? what vnderstandest thou, which is not in vs?

¹⁰With vs are both the gray headed, and very aged men, much elder then thy father.

¹¹Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

¹²Why doeth thine heart carie thee away? and what doe thine eyes winke at,

¹³That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words goe out of thy mouth?

¹⁴What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵Beholde, he putteth no trust in his Saints, yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.

¹⁶How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water?

¹⁷I will shew thee, heare me, and that which I haue seene, I wil declare,

¹⁸Which wise men haue tolde from their fathers, and haue not hid it:

¹⁹Unto whom alone the earth was giuen, and no stranger passed among them.

²⁰The wicked man trauaileth with paine all his dayes, and the number of yeeres is hidden to the oppressour.

²¹A dreadfull sound is in his eares; in prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.

²²He beleeueth not that he shall returne out of darkenesse, and he is waited for, of the sword.

²³He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkenes is ready at his hand.

²⁴Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall preuaile against him, as a king ready to the battell.

²⁵For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himselfe against the Almightie.

²⁶He runneth vpon him, euen on his necke, vpon the thicke bosses of his bucklers:

²⁷Because he couereth his face with his fatnesse, and maketh collops of fat on his flankes.

²⁸And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heapes.

²⁹He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof vpon the earth.

³⁰He shall not depart out of darkenesse, the flame shall drie vp his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he goe away.

³¹Let not him that is deceiued, trust in vanitie: for vanitie shalbe his recompence.

³²It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not bee greene.

³³He shal shake off his vnripe grape as the Uine, and shall cast off his flowre as the Oliue.

³⁴For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of briberie.

³⁵They conceiue mischiefe, and bring forth vanitie, and their belly prepareth deceit.