These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Job 15
Tanakh 35 verses
- 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
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Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, And fill his belly with the east wind?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
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- 4 Yea, thou doest away with , And impairest devotion before .
- 5 For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
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- 8 Dost thou hearken in the council of ? And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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What knowest thou, that we not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
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With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much older than thy father.
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Are the consolations of too small for thee, And the that dealeth gently with thee?
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Why doth thy carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?
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That thou turnest thy against , And lettest such words go out of thy mouth.
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- 14 What is man, that he should be ? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Behold, He putteth no trust in His ones; Yea, the are not in His sight.
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How much less one that is abominable and impure, Man who drinketh iniquity like water!
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I will tell thee, thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare—
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Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
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Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
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- 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears: In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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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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- 23 He wandereth abroad for bread: ‘Where is it?’ He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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Distress and anguish overwhelm him; They prevail against him, as a ready to the battle.
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- 25 Because he hath stretched out his hand against , And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
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He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers.
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Because he hath covered his with his fatness, And made collops of fat on his loins;
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And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man would inhabit, Which were ready to become heaps.
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their produce bend to the earth.
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- 30 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.
- 31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
- 32 It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be leafy.
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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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- 34 For the company of the Elohimless shall be desolate, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
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They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their belly prepareth deceit.
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