1Then answered6030 Eliphaz464 the Temanite8489, and said559,
2Should a wise man2450 utter6030 vain7307 knowledge1847, and fill4390 his belly990 with the east wind6921?
3Should he reason3198 with unprofitable5532 talk1697? or with speeches4405 wherewith he can do no good3276?
4Yea, thou castest off6565 fear3374, and restrainest1639 prayer7881 before6440 God410.
5For thy mouth6310 uttereth502 thine iniquity5771, and thou choosest977 the tongue3956 of the crafty6175.
6Thine own mouth6310 condemneth7561 thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips8193 testify6030 against thee.
7Art thou the first7223 7223 man120 that was born3205? or wast thou made2342 before6440 the hills1389?
8Hast thou heard8085 the secret5475 of God433? and dost thou restrain1639 wisdom2451 to thyself?
9What knowest3045 thou, that we know3045 not? what understandest995 thou, which is not in us?
10With us are both the grayheaded7867 and very aged3453 men, much3524 elder3117 than thy father1.
11Are the consolations8575 of God410 small4592 with thee? is there any secret328 thing1697 with thee?
12Why doth thine heart3820 carry thee away3947? and what do thy eyes5869 wink at7335,
13That thou turnest7725 thy spirit7307 against God410, and lettest such words4405 go out3318 of thy mouth6310?
14What is man582, that he should be clean2135? and he which is born3205 of a woman802, that he should be righteous6663?
15Behold, he putteth no trust539 in his saints6918; yea, the heavens8064 are not clean2141 in his sight5869.
16How much more abominable8581 and filthy444 is man376, which drinketh8354 iniquity5766 5766 like water4325?
17I will shew2331 thee, hear8085 me; and that which I have seen2372 I will declare5608;
18Which wise2450 men have told5046 from their fathers1, and have not hid3582 it:
19Unto whom alone the earth776 was given5414, and no stranger2114 passed5674 among8432 them.
20The wicked7563 man travaileth2342 with pain all his days3117, and the number4557 of years8141 is hidden6845 to the oppressor6184.
21A dreadful6343 sound6963 is in his ears241: in prosperity7965 the destroyer7703 shall come935 upon him.
22He believeth539 not that he shall return7725 out of darkness2822, and he is waited6822 for of the sword2719.
23He wandereth abroad5074 for bread3899, saying, Where is it? he knoweth3045 that the day3117 of darkness2822 is ready3559 at his hand3027.
24Trouble6862 and anguish4691 shall make him afraid1204; they shall prevail8630 against him, as a king4428 ready6264 to the battle3593.
25For he stretcheth out5186 his hand3027 against God410, and strengtheneth1396 himself against the Almighty7706.
26He runneth7323 upon him, even on his neck6677, upon the thick5672 bosses1354 of his bucklers4043:
27Because he covereth3680 his face6440 with his fatness2459, and maketh6213 collops of fat6371 on his flanks3689.
28And he dwelleth7931 in desolate3582 cities5892, and in houses1004 which no man inhabiteth3427, which are ready6257 to become heaps1530.
29He shall not be rich6238, neither shall his substance2428 continue6965, neither shall he prolong5186 the perfection4512 thereof upon the earth776.
30He shall not depart5493 out of darkness2822; the flame7957 shall dry up3001 his branches3127, and by the breath7307 of his mouth6310 shall he go away5493.
31Let not him that is deceived8582 trust539 in vanity7723: for vanity7723 shall be his recompence8545.
32It shall be accomplished4390 before3808 his time3117, and his branch3712 shall not be green7488.
33He shall shake off2554 his unripe grape1154 as the vine1612, and shall cast off7993 his flower5328 as the olive2132.
34For the congregation5712 of hypocrites2611 shall be desolate1565, and fire784 shall consume398 the tabernacles168 of bribery7810.
35They conceive2029 mischief5999, and bring forth3205 vanity205, and their belly990 prepareth3559 deceit4820.