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¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:² Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?³ Should he reason with speech that is not useful, or with words having no profit in them?⁴ Yea, you do away with fear, and take away devotion before God.⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth; and you choose the tongue of the crafty.⁶ Your mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you.⁷ Were you the first man born? Or were you made before the hills?⁸ Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?⁹ What do you know that we do not know? Or understand, that is not with us?¹⁰ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men , mightier than your father as to days.¹¹ Are the comforts of God small with you, and a word that deals gently with you?¹² Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,¹³ that you turn your spirit against God and let such words go out of your mouth?¹⁴ What is man that he should be clean? And he born of a woman, that he should be righteous?¹⁵ Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His eyes.¹⁶ How much more loathed and corrupted is man who drinks injustice like water!

¹⁷ I will tell you; hear me, and I will declare this that I have seen;¹⁸ that which wise men have told and have not hidden from their fathers;¹⁹ to them alone the land was given; and no alien passed among them.²⁰ All the days of the wicked he is laboring in pain; a number of years are stored up for the ruthless.²¹ A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the one devastating shall come on him in peace.²² He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword.²³ He is wandering, for he seeks for bread. Where is it ? He knows that the day of darkness is at his hand.²⁴ Distress and pain terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the attack;²⁵ because he stretched out his hand against God; and he acts mighty against the Almighty.²⁶ He runs at Him with a stiff neck, with the thick layers of his shields,²⁷ because he has covered his face with fat; yea, he has put fat on his loins.²⁸ And he dwells in cut off cities; houses, none lives in them, which are ready to become heaps.²⁹ He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth hold out; nor shall he stretch out their gain on the earth.³⁰ He shall not escape from darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and he shall turn at the breath of His mouth.³¹ Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for his reward shall be vanity.³² Before his day it shall be fulfilled, and his branch shall not be green;³³ he shall shake off its unripe grape as the vine; and he shall cast its flower like the olive.³⁴ For the company of the ungodly shall be bleak; and fire shall devour the tents of bribery;³⁵ they conceive mischief and generate evil; and their belly prepares deceit.