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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 Gods 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.