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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,² Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches by which he can do no good?⁴ Yes, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty.⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.⁷ Are you the first of man that was born? Or were you brought forth 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 don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?¹⁰ With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much older than your father.¹¹ Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?¹² Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,¹³ That against God you turn your spirit, And let words go out of your mouth?¹⁴ What is common man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?¹⁵ Look, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his eyes:¹⁶ How much less one that is disgusting and corrupt, A man that drinks iniquity like water!

¹⁷ I will show you, hear 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 To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):²⁰ The wicked man travails 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 on him.²² He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness, And he is destined for the sword.²³ He is destined for bread, as bread for vultures. He knows that he is ready for destruction.²⁴ The day of darkness terrifies him, distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;²⁶ He runs on him with a [stiff] neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;²⁷ Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins;²⁸ And he has dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall 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 green.³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.³⁴ For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.³⁵ They are pregnant with mischief, and give birth to iniquity, And their heart prepares deceit.