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Job 16:1 Meaning & Commentary – Job’s Lament

Then Job answered and said,

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They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

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For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

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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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It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

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Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

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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.

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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

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Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.