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¹ Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said, ² Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly, ³ reasoning with improper sayings, and with words wherein is no profit? ⁴ Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord? ⁵ Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty. ⁶ Let thine own mouth, and not me, reprove thee: and thy lips shall testify against thee. ⁷ What! art thou the first man that was born? or wert thou established before the hills? ⁸ Or hast thou heard the ordinance of the Lord? or has God used thee as his counsellor? and has wisdom come only to thee? ⁹ For what knowest thou, that, we know not? or what understandest thou, which we do not also? ¹⁰ Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than thy father. ¹¹ Thou hast been scourged for but few of thy sins: thou hast spoken haughtily and extravagantly. ¹² What has thine heart dared? or what have thine eyes aimed at, ¹³ that thou hast vented thy rage before the Lord, and delivered such words from thy mouth? ¹⁴ For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just? ¹⁵ Forasmuch as he trusts not his saints; and the heaven is not pure before him. ¹⁶ Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

¹⁷ But I will tell thee, hearken to me; I will tell thee now what I have seen; ¹⁸ things wise men say, and their fathers have not hidden. ¹⁹ To them alone the earth was given, and no stranger came upon them. ²⁰ All the life of the ungodly is spent in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered. ²¹ And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come. ²² Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword. ²³ And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind. ²⁴ Distress also and anguish shall come upon him: he shall fall as a captain in the first rank. ²⁵ For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord. ²⁶ And he has run against him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield. ²⁷ For he has covered his face with his fat, and made layers of fat upon his thighs. ²⁸ And let him lodge in desolate cities, and enter into houses without inhabitant: and what they have prepared, others shall carry away. ²⁹ Neither shall he at all grow rich, nor shall his substance remain: he shall not cast a shadow upon the earth. ³⁰ Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off. ³¹ Let him not think that he shall endure; for his end shall be vanity. ³² His harvest shall perish before the time, and his branch shall not flourish. ³³ And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive. ³⁴ For death is the witness of an ungodly man, and fire shall burn the houses of them that receive gifts. ³⁵ And he shall conceive sorrows, and his end shall be vanity, and his belly shall bear deceit.