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Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
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Eliphaz of Teman spoke a second time:
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
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Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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"If you were truly wise, would you sound so much like a windbag, belching hot air?
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"Would a wise man answer with empty notions or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
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"Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
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"You are supposed to be a wise man, and yet you give us all this foolish talk. You are nothing but a windbag.
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
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Would you talk nonsense in the middle of a serious argument, babbling baloney?
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Would he argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or by speeches with which he can do no good?
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It isn't right to speak so foolishly. What good do such words do?
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Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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Look at you! You trivialize religion, turn spiritual conversation into empty gossip.
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But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
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Yes, you cast off fear, And restrain prayer before God.
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Have you no fear of God, no reverence for him?
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For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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It's your sin that taught you to talk this way. You chose an education in fraud.
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Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
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For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.
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Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception.
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Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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Your own words have exposed your guilt. It's nothing I've said--you've incriminated yourself!
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Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.
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Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.
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But why should I condemn you? Your own mouth does!
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Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
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Do you think you're the first person to have to deal with these things? Have you been around as long as the hills?
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"Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
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"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you made before the hills?
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"Were you the first person ever born? Were you born before the hills were made?
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Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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Were you listening in when God planned all this? Do you think you're the only one who knows anything?
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Do you listen in on God's council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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Have you heard the counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
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Were you listening at God's secret council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
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What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
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What do you know that we don't know? What insights do you have that we've missed?
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What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?
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What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not in us?
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What do you know that we don't? What do you understand that we don't?
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With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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Gray beards and white hair back us up--old folks who've been around a lot longer than you.
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The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.
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Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Much older than your father.
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On our side are aged, gray-haired men much older than your father!
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Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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Are God's promises not enough for you, spoken so gently and tenderly?
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Are God's consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?
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Are the consolations of God too small for you, And the word spoken gently with you?
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"Is God's comfort too little for you? Is his gentle word not enough?
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Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
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Why do you let your emotions take over, lashing out and spitting fire,
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Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
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Why does your heart carry you away, And what do your eyes wink at,
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What has captured your reason? What has weakened your vision,
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That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
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Pitting your whole being against God by letting words like this come out of your mouth?
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so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?
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That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?
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that you turn against God and say all these evil things?
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What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Do you think it's possible for any mere mortal to be sinless in God's sight, for anyone born of a human mother to get it all together?
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"What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of woman, that he could be righteous?
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"What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
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Can a mortal be pure? Can a human be just?
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Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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Why, God can't even trust his holy angels. He sees the flaws in the very heavens themselves,
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If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
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If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight,
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Why, God doesn't even trust the angels! Even the heavens cannot be absolutely pure in his sight.
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How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
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So how much less we humans, smelly and foul, who lap up evil like water?
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how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks up evil like water!
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How much less man, who is abominable and filthy, Who drinks iniquity like water!
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How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!
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I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
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"I've a thing or two to tell you, so listen up! I'm letting you in on my views;
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"Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,
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"I will tell you, hear me; What I have seen I will declare,
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"If you will listen, I will answer you from my own experience.
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
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It's what wise men and women have always taught, holding nothing back from what they were taught
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what wise men have declared, hiding nothing received from their fathers
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What wise men have told, Not hiding anything received from their fathers,
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And it is confirmed by the experience of wise men who have heard the same thing from their fathers,
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Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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By their parents, back in the days when they had this land all to themselves:
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(to whom alone the land was given when no alien passed among them):
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To whom alone the land was given, And no alien passed among them:
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those to whom the land was given long before any foreigners arrived.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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Those who live by their own rules, not God's, can expect nothing but trouble, and the longer they live, the worse it gets.
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All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless through all the years stored up for him.
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The wicked man writhes with pain all his days, And the number of years is hidden from the oppressor.
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"Wicked people are in pain throughout their lives.
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A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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Every little sound terrifies them. Just when they think they have it made, disaster strikes.
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Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.
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Dreadful sounds are in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer comes upon him.
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They are surrounded by terrors, and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.
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He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
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They despair of things ever getting better--they're on the list of people for whom things always turn out for the worst.
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He despairs of escaping the darkness; he is marked for the sword.
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He does not believe that he will return from darkness, For a sword is waiting for him.
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They dare not go out into the darkness for fear they will be murdered.
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He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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They wander here and there, never knowing where the next meal is coming from--every day is doomsday!
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He wanders about-food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
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He wanders about for bread, saying, "Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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They wander abroad for bread, saying, `Where is it?' They know their ruin is certain.
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Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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They live in constant terror, always with their backs up against the wall
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Distress and anguish fill him with terror; they overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,
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Trouble and anguish make him afraid; They overpower him, like a king ready for battle.
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That dark day terrifies them. They live in distress and anguish, like a king preparing for an attack.
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For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
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Because they insist on shaking their fists at God, defying God Almighty to his face,
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because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
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For he stretches out his hand against God, And acts defiantly against the Almighty,
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For they have clenched their fists against God, defying the Almighty.
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He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
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Always and ever at odds with God, always on the defensive.
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defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
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Running stubbornly against Him With his strong, embossed shield.
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Holding their strong shields, they defiantly charge against him.
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Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
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"Even if they're the picture of health, trim and fit and youthful,
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"Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,
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"Though he has covered his face with his fatness, And made his waist heavy with fat,
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"These wicked people are fat and rich,
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
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They'll end up living in a ghost town sleeping in a hovel not fit for a dog, a ramshackle shack.
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he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
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He dwells in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabits, Which are destined to become ruins.
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but their cities will be ruined. They will live in abandoned houses that are ready to tumble down.
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
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They'll never get ahead, never amount to a hill of beans.
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He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
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He will not be rich, Nor will his wealth continue, Nor will his possessions overspread the earth.
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They will not continue to be rich. Their wealth will not endure, and their possessions will no longer spread across the horizon.
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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.
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And then death--don't think they'll escape that! They'll end up shriveled weeds, brought down by a puff of God's breath.
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He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.
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He will not depart from darkness; The flame will dry out his branches, And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.
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"They will not escape the darkness. The flame will burn them up, and the breath of God will destroy everything they have.
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Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
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There's a lesson here: Whoever invests in lies, gets lies for interest,
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Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.
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Let him not trust in futile things, deceiving himself, For futility will be his reward.
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Let them no longer trust in empty riches. They are only fooling themselves, for emptiness will be their only reward.
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It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
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Paid in full before the due date. Some investment!
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Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.
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It will be accomplished before his time, And his branch will not be green.
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They will be cut down in the prime of life, and all they counted on will disappear.
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He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
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They'll be like fruit frost-killed before it ripens, like buds sheared off before they bloom.
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He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.
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He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine, And cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
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They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested before they are ripe, like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms so the fruit cannot form.
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For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
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The godless are fruitless--a barren crew; a life built on bribes goes up in smoke.
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For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
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For the company of hypocrites will be barren, And fire will consume the tents of bribery.
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For the godless are barren. Their homes, enriched through bribery, will be consumed by fire.
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They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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They have sex with sin and give birth to evil. Their lives are wombs for breeding deceit." HKJob Defends HimselfHK If You Were in My Shoes
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They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit."
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They conceive trouble and bring forth futility; Their womb prepares deceit."
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They conceive trouble and evil, and their hearts give birth only to deceit."
