Job

Job 15 ©

1 Eliphaz reproveth Job of impiety in justifying himself: 17 he proveth from tradition the disquietude of wicked men.

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THEN answered aEliphaz the Temanite, and said,

a ch. 2.11.
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bShould a wise man utter 1vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

b ch. 12.3; 13.2; 6.26; 11.2,3. Ho. 12.1.
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Should he reason with cunprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

c Col. 4.6. Mat. 12.36,37. 1Ti. 1.6,7; 6.4,5.
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Yea, 2thou castest off fear, and restrainest 3prayer before God.

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For thy mouth 4uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

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Thine own mouth dcondemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

d Mat. 26.65. Lu. 19.22. ch. 9.20. Jn. 5.45.
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Art thou ethe first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

e Ge. 2.7. Ps. 90.2. Pr. 8.25.
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fHast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

f Ro. 11.34. Je. 23.18. ch. 12.2; 13.5,6. 1Co. 2.11.
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What gknowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

g ch. 12.3; 13.2; 26.3.
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With us are both hthe grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

h ch. 8.8-10; 12.12; 32.6-9. De. 32.7. He. 5.12.
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Are the iconsolations of God small with thee? is there any jsecret thing with thee?

i ch. 5.8-26; 11.13-19.
j 1Ki. 22.24. v.9.
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Why doth thine kheart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

k ch. 17.2,4. Ja. 1.14,15. Pr. 6.12,14,17,18.
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That thou lturnest thy spirit against God, and lettest msuch words go out of thy mouth?

l Ro. 8.7,8. Zec. 11.8. Pr. 19.3. Mal. 3.13.
m ch. 9.22; 10.3; 12.6; 13.22-27.
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nWhat is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

n 1Ki. 8.46. 2Ch. 6.36. ch. 14.4; 25.4-6. Ps. 14.3; 51.5. Pr. 20.9. 1Jn. 1.8,10. Ep. 2.3.
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oBehold, he putteth no trust in his psaints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

o ch. 4.18; 25.5.
p ch. 5.1.
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qHow much more abominable and filthy is man, which rdrinketh iniquity like water?

q Ps. 14.3,4. Tit. 3.3. Ep. 2.1-3. Ro. 1.28-30; 8.7; 3.10-18.
r ch. 20.12; 34.7. Ps. 53.1-4; 73.10. Pr. 19.28. 2Pe. 2.22.
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I will sshew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

s ch. 5.27; 13.5,6.
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Which wise men have ttold ufrom their fathers, and have not hid it :

t Is. 3.9.
u ch. 8.8. Ps. 44.1,2; 78.2-8. Ge. 18.19. Is. 38.19.
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Unto vwhom alone the earth was given, and wno stranger passed among them.

v De. 32.8.
w Joel 3.17. ch. 1.15,17.
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The wicked man xtravaileth with pain all his days, and the ynumber of years is hidden to the oppressor.

x ch. 36.16. 1Ti. 6.9,10. Ps. 7.14. Ja. 1.14,15. Ec. 9.3.
y Ps. 90.12.
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5A dreadful sound is in his ears: zin prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

z 1Th. 5.3. Ps. 73.18-20. ch. 1.13-19. Ex. 7-14. Is. 37.36.
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He abelieveth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

a 2Ki. 6.33. Mat. 27.5. Re. 13.10. Ps. 55.15,23. De. 28.66,67.
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He bwandereth *abroad for bread, saying, Where is it ? he cknoweth that the day of darkness dis ready at his hand.

b Ge. 4.12. Ps. 59.15; 109.10.
c He. 10.27. Is. 33.14.
d ch. 18.12.
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eTrouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

e ch. 18.5-20. Ps. 22.1-21; 77.1-10; 88.1-18. Ro. 2.8,9.
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For he fstretcheth out his hand against God, gand strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

f Mal. 3.13. Le. 26.14,15,21,23. Ro. 8.7,8. Is. 27.4; 28.15,22.
g ch. 9.4.
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He hrunneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick *bosses of his *bucklers:

h Ex. 5.2,3. Is. 37.4,6,29. Ps. 73.8,9. 2Ch. 28.22.
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Because he icovereth his face with his fatness, and maketh *collops of fat on his flanks.

i De. 32.15-18. Ps. 17.10; 78.31; 73.7; 119.70. Je. 46.21. Am. 4.1. Pr. 1.32.
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And he dwelleth in jdesolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

j Ps. 73.18-20. ch. 3.14; 5.3. Mi. 7.13. Je. 17.5,6. Zec. 5.4. Pr. 3.33.
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He kshall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

k ch. 20.22. Ps. 73.18-20. 1Th. 5.3. 1Ti. 6.9,10.
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He lshall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and mby the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

l Mat. 8.12; 22.13; 25.41,46. 2Th. 1.8,9.
m Is. 11.4; 30.33. 2Th. 2.8. Re. 19.15. ch. 4.9.
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Let not him that is deceived trust in nvanity: for ovanity shall be his recompence.

n Pr. 11.4. Ec. 1.2,14; 12.8. Jonah 2.8. Is. 59.4.
o ch. 20.4-29; 4.8. Pr. 22.8. Ho. 8.7. Ga. 6.7,8.
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It shall be 6accomplished before his time, and his pbranch shall not be green.

p Is. 9.14.
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He shall shake off his qunripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

q Is. 18.5.
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rFor the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume sthe *tabernacles of bribery.

r ch. 20.5; 27.8. Is. 33.14,15. Hab. 2.12. ch. 1.14-19.
s Am. 5.11,12.
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tThey conceive mischief, and bring forth 7vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

t Ps. 7.14. Is. 59.4. Ho. 10.13. Ga. 6.7,8.