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Job 15:9-19

9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

9 What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?

10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

11 Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?

12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

13 so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

14 “What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

16 how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!

17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

17 “Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,

18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

18 what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors

19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

19 (to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):

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