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Job

Job 15 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷

1 BUT Eliphaz the Themanite answering, said:

2 Will a wise man answer as it were speaking into the wind, and fill his stomach with burning?

3 Thou reprovest him in words, that is not equal to thee, & speakest that which is not expedient for thee.

4 As much as is in thee, thou hast evacuated fear, and hast taken away prayers before God.

5 For thine iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou doest imitate the tongue of blasphemers.

6 Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy lips shall answer thee.

7 Wast thou the first man born, and formed before the little hills?

8 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?

9 What doest thou know, that we are ignorant of? What doest thou understand that we know not?

10 There are both old men & ancients among us, much elder than thy fathers.

11 Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? But thy naughty words hinder it.

12 Why doth thy heart elevate thee, & as thinking great things, hast thou astonished eyes?

13 Why doeth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth?