Book of Job, Chapter 15
Chapter 15 of Job
and fill himself with the east wind?
or in words with which he can do no good?
and hindering meditation before God.
and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
your own lips testify against you.
Or were you brought forth before the hills?
And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
What do you understand that is not clear to us?
older than your father.
or the word that deals gently with you?
and why do your eyes flash,
and let such words go out of your mouth?
Or he that is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
and the heavens are not clean in his sight;
a man who drinks iniquity like water!
and what I have seen I will declare
and their fathers have not hidden,
and no stranger passed among them).
through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.
in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
and he is destined for the sword.
He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;
they prevail against him, like a king prepared for battle.
and bids defiance to the Almighty,
with a thick-bossed shield;
and gathered fat upon his loins,
in houses which no man should inhabit,
which were destined to become heaps of ruins;
nor will he strike root in the earth;[a]
the flame will dry up his shoots,
and his blossom[b] will be swept away[c] by the wind.
for emptiness will be his recompense.
and his branch will not be green.
and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree.
and fire consumes the tents of bribery.
and their heart prepares deceit.”FOOTNOTES
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