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| [1]Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said: |
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| [2]Should a wise man make answer with win knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? |
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| [3]Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or wit speeches wherewith he can do no good? |
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| [4]Yea, thou doest away with fear, and impairest devotion before God. |
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| [5]For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. |
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| [6]Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; yea, thine own lips testify against thee. |
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| [7]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 God? And dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? |
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| [9]What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? |
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| [10]With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father. |
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| [11]Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee? |
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| [12]Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink? |
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| [13]That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth. |
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| [14]What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? |
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| [15]Behold, H putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight. |
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| [16]How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water! |
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| [17]I will tell thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare— |
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| [18]Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it; |
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| [19]Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them. |
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| [20]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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| [22]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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| [24]Distress and anguish overwhelm him; they prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. |
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| [25]Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, and behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty; |
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| [26]He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers. |
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| [27]Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, and made collops of fat on his loins; |
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| [28]And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps. |
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| [29]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. |
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| [31]Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; for vanity shall be his recompense. |
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| [32]It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be leafy. |
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| [33]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 godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery. |
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| [35]They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit. |
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