[001] Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
[002] Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
[003] Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
[004] Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
[005] For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
[006] Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
[007] Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
[008] Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
[009] What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
[010] With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
[011] Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
[012] Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
[013] That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
[014] What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
[015] Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
[016] How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
[017] I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
[018] Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
[019] Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
[020] The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
[021] A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
[022] He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
[023] He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
[024] Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
[025] For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
[026] He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
[027] Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
[028] And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
[029] He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
[030] 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.
[031] Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
[032] It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
[033] He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
[034] For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
[035] They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.