¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and saide,

² Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?

³ Shall he dispute with wordes not comely? or with talke that is not profitable?

⁴ Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.

⁵ For thy mouth declareth thine iniquitie, seeing thou hast chosen ye tongue of the crafty.

⁶ Thine owne mouth condemneth thee, and not I, and thy lippes testifie against thee.

⁷ Art thou the first man, that was borne? and wast thou made before the hils?

⁸ Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?

⁹ What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?

¹⁰ With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.

¹¹ Seeme the consolations of God small vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?

¹² Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,

¹³ That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust?

¹⁵ Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight.

¹⁶ How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?

¹⁷ I will tell thee: heare me, and I will declare that which I haue seene:

¹⁸ Which wise men haue tolde, as they haue heard of their fathers, and haue not kept it secret:

¹⁹ To whome alone the land was giuen and no stranger passed through them.

²⁰ The wicked man is continually as one that traueileth of childe, and the nomber of yeeres is hid from the tyrant.

²¹ A sounde of feare is in his eares, and in his prosperitie the destroyer shall come vpon him.

²² He beleeueth not to returne out of darknesse: for he seeth the sworde before him.

²³ He wandreth to and from for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.

²⁴ Affliction and anguish shall make him afraide: they shall preuaile against him as a King readie to the battell.

²⁵ For he hath stretched out his hand against GOD, and made him selfe strong against the Almightie.

²⁶ Therefore God shall runne vpon him, euen vpon his necke, and against the most thicke part of his shielde.

²⁷ Because he hath couered his face with his fatnesse, and hath colloppes in his flancke.

²⁸ Though he dwell in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, but are become heapes,

²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof in the earth.

³⁰ He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse: the flame shall drie vp his branches, and he shall goe away with the breath of his mouth.

³¹ He beleeueth not that he erreth in vanitie: therefore vanitie shalbe his change.

³² His branch shall not be greene, but shall be cut off before his day.

³³ God shall destroy him as the vine her sower grape, and shall cast him off, as the oliue doeth her flowre.

³⁴ For the congregation of the hypocrite shalbe desolate, and fire shall deuoure the houses of bribes.

³⁵ For they conceiue mischiefe and bring foorth vanitie, and their bellie hath prepared deceite.