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¹ Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:² Should, a wise man, answer unreal knowledge? or fill, with the east wind, his inner man?³ Disputing with discourse that doth no good, or with speech, wherein is no profit?⁴ But, thou, wouldst take away reverence, and wouldst attain unto meditation before GOD.⁵ For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty.⁶ Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and, not I, And, thine own lips, shall testify against thee.⁷ The first of mankind, wast thou born? Or, before the hills, wast thou brought forth?⁸ In the secret council of GOD, hast thou been wont to hearken? Or canst thou attain for thyself unto wisdom?⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, and the same, is not with us?¹⁰ Both hoary and venerable, are among us, one mightier than thy father in days!¹¹ Too small for thee, are the consolations of GOD? or a word spoken gently with thee?¹² How doth thine own heart carry thee away, and how thine eyes do roll!¹³ For thy spirit, replieth against GOD, and thou bringest forth - out of thy mouth - words!¹⁴ What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman?¹⁵ Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes:¹⁶ How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in - like water - perversity.

¹⁷ I will tell thee - hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it.¹⁸ Which, wise men, tell, and deny not that which is from their fathers.¹⁹ To them alone, was the earth given, and no alien passed through their midst:²⁰ All the days of the lawless man, he, doth writhe with pain, and, the number of years, is hidden from the tyrant;²¹ A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him;²² He hath no confidence to come back out of darkness, he, being destined to the power oft the sword;²³ A wanderer, he, for bread, saying Where is it ? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness;²⁴ Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset:²⁵ Because he had stretched out - against GOD - his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly;²⁶ He used to run against him with uplifted neck, with the stout bosses of his bucklers;²⁷ For he had covered his face with his fatness, and had gathered a superabundance on his loins;²⁸ And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps.²⁹ He shall not be rich, nor shall his substance continue, neither shall their shadow stretch along on the earth;³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth!³¹ Let no one trust in him that - by vanity - is deceived, for, vanity, shall be his recompense;³² Before his day, shall it be accomplished, with, his palm-top, not covered with leaves;³³ He shall wrong - like a vine - his sour grapes, and shall cast off - as an olive-tree - his blossom.³⁴ For, the family of the impious, is unfruitful, and, a fire, hath devoured the tents of bribery;³⁵ Conceiving mischief, and bringing forth iniquity, yea, their inmost soul, prepareth deceit.