### Douay Rheims Bible

Job 14

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 15
#### 1 | And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:
#### 2 | Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
#### 3 | Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.
#### 4 | As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.
#### 5 | For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.
#### 6 | Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.
#### 7 | Art thou the first man that was born, or wast thou made before the hills ?
#### 8 | Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?
#### 9 | What knowest thou that we are ignorant of? what dost thou understand that we know not?
#### 10 | There are with us also aged and ancient men, much elder than thy fathers.
#### 11 | Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.
#### 12 | Why doth thy heart elevate thee, and why dost thou stare with thy eyes, as if they were thinking great things ?
#### 13 | Why doth thy spirit swell against God, to utter such words out of thy mouth ?
#### 14 | What is man that he should be without spot, and he that is born of a woman that he should appear just?
#### 15 | Behold among his saints none is unchangeable, and the heavens are not pure in his sight.
#### 16 | How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
#### 17 | I will shew thee, hear me : and I mill tell thee what I have seen.
#### 18 | Wise men confess and hide not their fathers.
#### 19 | To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger hath passed among them.
#### 20 | The wicked man is proud all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
#### 21 | The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason.
#### 22 | He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.
#### 23 | When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
#### 24 | Tribulation shall terrify him, and distress shall surround him, as a king that is prepared for the battle.
#### 25 | For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and hath strengthened himself against the Almighty.
#### 26 | He hath run against him with his neck raised up, and is armed with a fat neck.
#### 27 | Fatness hath covered his face, and the fat hangeth down on his sides.
#### 28 | He hath dwelt in desolate cities, and in desert houses that are reduced into heaps.
#### 29 | He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he push his root in the earth.
#### 30 | He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own month.
#### 31 | He shall not believe, being vainly deceived by error, that he may be redeemed with any price.
#### 32 | Before his days be full he shall perish: and his hands shall wither away.
#### 33 | He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.
#### 34 | For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.
#### 35 | He hath conceived sorrow, and hath brought forth iniquity, and his womb prepareth deceits.

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