- 1. ¶ THEN answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
- 2. Should a spiritually minded man answer with knowledge and then become enraged?
- 3. Should he admonish with unprofitable talk, or with words that are worthless?
- 4. Yea, you also are discarding reverence, and talk too much in the presence of God.
- 5. For your mouth is accustomed to utter sinful things, and you choose the deceitful tongue of the crafty.
- 6. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you in my presence.
- 7. Are you the first man that was born? Or were you conceived before the hills?
- 8. Have you heard of the secrets of God? Has his wisdom been revealed to you?
- 9. Or what do you know that we do not know? Or what do you under, stand that we do not understand?
- 10. Behold, there are among us the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older in days than your father.
- 11. Now talk less of God’s threats, and speak comfortingly to yourself.
- 12. Why does your heart boast? And what do your eyes wink at,
- 13. That you boast in the presence of God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
- 14. What is man, that he should be innocent? Or he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
- 15. Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
- 16. Even though man should be rejected and afflicted, yet he shall drink iniquity like water.
- 17. ¶ Hear me, I will show you; and that which I have seen I will repeat;
- 18. That which wise men have declared, and did not hide from their fathers;
- 19. To whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.
- 20. The wicked man magnifies himself all his days, and the number of the years of the violent man is hidden.
- 21. A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him.
- 22. He does not believe that he shall be overthrown because of the darkness, and that he shall see the sword.
- 23. He flees because of the threat of judgment; he does not know that the day of darkness is already at his hand,
- 24. Trouble and anguish shall overtake him, like a king ready for the battle,
- 25. Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty.
- 26. He runs against him proudly, and strangles him, with the multitudes of his shields;
- 27. Because he has deceived himself with his wealth, and he places Pleiades above Aldebaran.
- 28. And he dwells in desolate cities, which no man has inhabited; then he prepares for war.
- 29. He shall not continue, neither shall his strength endure, nor shall his words be established upon the earth.
- 30. He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he be rejected.
- 31. Let him not trust in deceptive vanity, for his growth is in vain.
- 32. He shall dry up before his time, and the work of his hands shall not be found.
- 33. He shall shake off his unripe grapes, as the vine, and shall cast off his flowers as the olive tree.
- 34. For the congregation of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacle of the wicked.
- 35. They conceive mischief and bring forth deceit, and their belly is full of guile.
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