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| [1]Then aunswered Eliphaz the Themanite, and saide |
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| [2]Shall a wyse mans aunswere be as the winde, and fill a mans belly as it were with the winde of the east |
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| [3]Shall he reproue with a worde that is nothing worth, & speake the thinges which can do no good |
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| [4]Surely thou hast cast of feare, and restrainest prayer before God |
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| [5]For thy mouth setteth forth thyne owne iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen the tongue of the craftie |
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| [6]Thyne owne mouth condempneth thee, and not I: yea, thyne owne lippes shape an aunswere against thee |
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| [7]Art thou the first man that euer was borne? or wast thou made before the hils |
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| [8]Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God? and doest thou restraine wysdome to thee |
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| [9]What knowest thou, that we knowe not? And what vnderstandest thou, but we can the same |
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| [10]With vs are both olde and aged men, yea such as haue liued longer then thy father |
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| [11]Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? with thee is a lying worde |
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| [12]Why doth thyne heart so bewitche thee? And wherefore winckest thou with thyne eyes |
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| [13]That thy minde is so pufte vp against God, and lettest such wordes go out of thy mouth |
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| [14]What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, whereby he might be righteous |
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| [15]Beholde he doth not trust his sainctes, yea, the very heauens are not cleane in his sight |
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| [16]How much more then an abhominable and vyle man, which drincketh wickednesse like water |
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| [17]I will tel thee, heare me, and I will shewe thee that I haue seene |
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| [18]Which wyse men haue tolde, and haue not hid that which they receaued from theyr fathers |
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| [19]Unto whom alone the earth was geue, and no straunger went among them |
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| [20]The vngodly soroweth all the dayes of his lyfe as it were a woman with childe, and the number of a tirauntes yeres is vnknowen |
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| [21]A feareful sounde is [euer] in his eares, and when he is in peace, the destroyer shall come vpon him |
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| [22]He beleueth neuer to be deliuered out of darknesse: for the sworde is alwayes before his eyes |
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| [23]He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande |
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| [24]Trouble and anguishe wil make him afrayde, and compasse him about, as is a king in the middest of an armie |
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| [25]For he hath stretched out his hande against God, and armed him selfe against the almightie |
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| [26]He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiffe necke fighteth he against him |
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| [27]Where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lyking |
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| [28]Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones |
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| [29]He shall not be riche, neither shall his substaunce continue, neither shal the prosperitie thereof be prolonged vpon earth |
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| [30]He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse, the flame shal drye vp his branches, with the blast of ye mouth [of God] shall he be taken away |
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| [31]He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie, and yet vanitie shalbe his recompence |
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| [32]He shal perishe afore his time be worne out, and his braunche shall not be greene |
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| [33]He shalbe plucked of as an vntimely grape from the vine, and shall let his floure fall as the oliue doth |
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| [34]For the congregation of hypocrites shalbe desolate, and the fire shall consume the houses of such as are greedie to receaue giftes |
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| [35]He conceaueth trauaile, and beareth vanitie, and their body bringeth foorth disceyte |
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