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¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:² Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly 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 impairest 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 Dost thou hearken in the council of God? And dost thou restrain 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 older than thy father.¹¹ Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?¹² Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?¹³ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such 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 impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!

¹⁷ I will tell 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: 'Where is it?' He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.²⁴ Distress and anguish overwhelm him; 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 made collops of fat on his loins;²⁸ And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man would inhabit, which were ready to become heaps.²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their produce bend to 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 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 leafy.³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.³⁴ For the company of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.