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¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:² "Does a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill his belly [with] an east wind?³ To reason with a word not useful? And speeches—no profit in them?⁴ Indeed, you make reverence void, and diminish meditation before God.⁵ For your mouth teaches your iniquity, || And you choose the tongue of the cunning.⁶ Your mouth declares you wicked, and not I, || And your lips testify against you.⁷ Are you the first man born? And were you formed before the heights?⁸ Do you hear of the secret counsel of God? And withdraw wisdom to you?⁹ What have you known, and we do not know? [What] do you understand, and it is not with us?¹⁰ Both the gray-headed || And the very aged [are] among us—Greater than your father [in] days.¹¹ Are the comforts of God too few for you? And a gentle word [is] with you,¹² Why does your heart take you away? And why are your eyes high?¹³ Do you turn your spirit against God? And have brought out words from your mouth:¹⁴ What [is] man that he is pure, || And that he is righteous, one born of woman?¹⁵ Behold, He puts no credence in His holy ones, || And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.¹⁶ Also—surely abominable and filthy || Is man drinking perverseness as water.

¹⁷ I show you—listen to me—And this I have seen and declare,¹⁸ Which the wise declare—And have not hid—from their fathers.¹⁹ To them alone was the land given, || And a stranger did not pass over into their midst:²⁰ All [the] days of the wicked he is paining himself, || And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.²¹ A fearful voice [is] in his ears, || In peace a destroyer comes to him.²² He does not believe to return from darkness, || And he watches for the sword.²³ He is wandering for bread: Where [is] it? He has known that ready at his hand || Is a day of darkness.²⁴ Adversity and distress terrify him, || They prevail over him as a king ready for a boaster.²⁵ For he stretched out his hand against God, || And against the Mighty he makes himself mighty.²⁶ He runs to Him with a neck, || With thick bosses of his shields.²⁷ For he has covered his face with his fat, || And makes vigor over [his] confidence.²⁸ And he inhabits cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, || That have been ready to become heaps.²⁹ He is not rich, nor does his wealth rise, || Nor does he stretch out their continuance on earth.³⁰ He does not turn aside from darkness, || A flame dries up his tender branch, || And he turns aside at the breath of His mouth!³¹ Do not let him put credence in vanity, || He has been deceived, || For vanity is his exchange.³² It is not completed in his day, || And his bending branch is not green.³³ He shakes off his unripe fruit as a vine, || And casts off his blossom as an olive.³⁴ For the company of the profane [is] barren, || And fire has consumed tents of bribery.³⁵ To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, || Even their heart prepares deceit."