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¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, ² Should a wise man vtter vaine knowledge, and fill his belly with the East winde? ³ Should hee reason with vnprofitable talke? or with speeches wherewith he can doe no good? ⁴ Yea thou castest off feare, and restrainest prayer before God. ⁵ For thy mouth vttereth thine iniquitie, and thou choosest the tongue of the craftie. ⁶ Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine owne lippes testifie against thee. ⁷ Art thou the first man that was borne? or wast thou made before the hilles? ⁸ Hast thou heard the secret of God? and doest thou restraine wisedome to thy selfe? ⁹ What knowest thou that we know not? what vnderstandest thou, which is not in vs? ¹⁰ With vs are both the gray headed, and very aged men, much elder then thy father. ¹¹ Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? ¹² Why doeth thine heart carie thee away? and what doe thine eyes winke at, ¹³ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words goe out of thy mouth? ¹⁴ What is man, that he should be cleane? and he which is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous? ¹⁵ Beholde, he putteth no trust in his Saints, yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight. ¹⁶ How much more abominable and filthie is man, which drinketh iniquitie like water?

¹⁷ I will shew thee, heare me, and that which I haue seene, I wil declare, ¹⁸ Which wise men haue tolde from their fathers, and haue not hid it: ¹⁹ Unto whom alone the earth was giuen, and no stranger passed among them. ²⁰ The wicked man trauaileth with paine all his dayes, and the number of yeeres is hidden to the oppressour. ²¹ A dreadfull sound is in his eares; in prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him. ²² He beleeueth not that he shall returne out of darkenesse, and he is waited for, of the sword. ²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkenes is ready at his hand. ²⁴ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall preuaile against him, as a king ready to the battell. ²⁵ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himselfe against the Almightie. ²⁶ He runneth vpon him, euen on his necke, vpon the thicke bosses of his bucklers: ²⁷ Because he couereth his face with his fatnesse, and maketh collops of fat on his flankes. ²⁸ And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heapes. ²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof vpon the earth. ³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkenesse, the flame shall drie vp his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he goe away. ³¹ Let not him that is deceiued, trust in vanitie: for vanitie shalbe his recompence. ³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not bee greene. ³³ He shal shake off his vnripe grape as the Uine, and shall cast off his flowre as the Oliue. ³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of briberie. ³⁵ They conceiue mischiefe, and bring forth vanitie, and their belly prepareth deceit.