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Yes, your own lips testify against you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>"I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/15-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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