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15:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
15:2  ‘Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and fill themselves with the east wind?
15:3  Should they argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which they can do no good?
15:4  But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.
15:5  For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
15:6  Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
15:7  ‘Are you the firstborn of the human race? Were you brought forth before the hills?
15:8  Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
15:9  What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
15:10  The grey-haired and the aged are on our side, those older than your father.
15:11  Are the consolations of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?
15:12  Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,
15:13  so that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
15:14  What are mortals, that they can be clean? Or those born of woman, that they can be righteous?
15:15  God puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
15:16  how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
15:17  ‘I will show you; listen to me; what I have seen I will declare—
15:18  what sages have told, and their ancestors have not hidden,
15:19  to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.
15:20  The wicked writhe in pain all their days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
15:21  Terrifying sounds are in their ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.
15:22  They despair of returning from darkness, and they are destined for the sword.
15:23  They wander abroad for bread, saying, “Where is it?” They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand;
15:24  distress and anguish terrify them; they prevail against them, like a king prepared for battle.
15:25  Because they stretched out their hands against God, and bid defiance to the Almighty,
15:26  running stubbornly against him with a thick-bossed shield;
15:27  because they have covered their faces with their fat, and gathered fat upon their loins,
15:28  they will live in desolate cities, in houses that no one should inhabit, houses destined to become heaps of ruins;
15:29  they will not be rich, and their wealth will not endure, nor will they strike root in the earth;
15:30  they will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up their shoots, and their blossom will be swept away by the wind.
15:31  Let them not trust in emptiness, deceiving themselves; for emptiness will be their recompense.
15:32  It will be paid in full before their time, and their branch will not be green.
15:33  They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.
15:34  For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
15:35  They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit.’