{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Job",
 "chapter": 15,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?"
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?"
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?"
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?"
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,"
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?"
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?"
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;"
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:"
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:"
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive."
  },
  {
   "v": 34,
   "t": "For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery."
  },
  {
   "v": 35,
   "t": "They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit."
  }
 ],
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}