Job 15:4-21
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4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
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8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
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10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
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12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
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13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
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14 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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15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
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17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
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18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
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19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.