Eliphaz Says Job Presumes Much
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That you should turn your spirit against God
And allow such words to go out of your mouth?
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And allow such words to go out of your mouth?
What Eliphaz Has Seen of Life
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“I will tell you, listen to me;
And what I have seen I will also declare;
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19 And what I have seen I will also declare;
To whom alone the land was given,
And no alien passed among them.
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24 And no alien passed among them.
“Distress and anguish terrify him,
They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,
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29 They overpower him like a king ready for the attack,
“He (AC)will not become rich, nor will his wealth endure;
And his grain will not bend down to the ground.
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33 And his grain will not bend down to the ground.
“He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,
And will (AJ)cast off his flower like the olive tree.
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And will (AJ)cast off his flower like the olive tree.
Footnotes:
a.
Job 15:1: ['Lit ', answered and said]
b.
Job 15:2: ['Lit ', his belly]
c.
Job 15:4: ['Lit ', fear]
d.
Job 15:9: ['Lit ', is not within us, '?']
e.
Job 15:20: ['Lit ', the number of years are]
f.
Job 15:21: ['Lit ', A sound of terrors is]
g.
Job 15:23: ['Lit ', ready at his hand]
h.
Job 15:25: ['Heb ', Shaddai]
i.
Job 15:26: ['Lit ', with a stiff neck]
j.
Job 15:26: ['Lit ', the thick-bossed shields]
k.
Job 15:28: ['Or ', heaps]
l.
Job 15:30: ['Lit ', turn aside]
m.
Job 15:31: ['Lit ', exchange]
n.
Job 15:34: ['Lit ', a bribe]
o.
Job 15:35: ['Or ', pain]
p.
Job 15:35: ['Lit ', belly]
Cross references:
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Job 15:16:
Psalm 14:1