- 1. Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
- 2. Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
- 3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
- 4. Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
- 5. For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
- 6. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
- 7. Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
- 8. Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
- 9. What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
- 10. With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
- 11. Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?
- 12. Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
- 13. That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?
- 14. What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- 15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
- 16. How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
- 17. I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:
- 18. (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
- 19. Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
- 20. The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
- 21. A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
- 22. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.
- 23. He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
- 24. Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
- 25. Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
- 26. He runneth upon him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
- 27. Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
- 28. And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
- 29. He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
- 30. He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God’s] 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 green.
- 33. He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
- 34. For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.
- 35. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.
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