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15Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
²Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
³Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
⁴Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
⁵For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
⁶Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
⁷Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
⁸Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
⁹What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
¹⁰With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
¹¹Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
¹²Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
¹³That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
¹⁴What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
¹⁵Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
¹⁶How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?