¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

² Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

³ Should he reason with speech that is not useful, or with words having no profit in them?

⁴ Yea, you do away with fear, and take away devotion before God.

⁵ For your iniquity teaches your mouth; and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

⁶ Your mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you.

⁷ Were you the first man born? Or were you made 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 do not know? Or understand, that is not with us?

¹⁰ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men , mightier than your father as to days.

¹¹ Are the comforts of God small with you, and a word that deals gently with you?

¹² Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,

¹³ that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

¹⁴ What is man that he should be clean? And he born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

¹⁵ Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His eyes.

¹⁶ How much more is filthy man loathed, who drinks iniquity like water!

¹⁷ I will tell you; hear me, and I will declare this that I have seen;

¹⁸ that which wise men have told, and have not hidden from their fathers;

¹⁹ to them alone the land was given; and no alien passed among them.

²⁰ All the days of the wicked he is laboring in pain; a number of years are stored up for the ruthless.

²¹ A dreadful sound of things is in his ears; the destroyer shall come on him in peace.

²² He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword.

²³ He is wandering, for he seeks for bread. Where is it ? He knows that the day of darkness is at his hand.

²⁴ Distress and pain terrify him; they shall overpower him, as a king ready for the attack;

²⁵ because he stretched out his hand against God, and acts mighty against the Almighty.

²⁶ He runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick layers of his shields,

²⁷ because he has covered his face with fat; yea, he has put fat on his loins.

²⁸ And he dwells in cut off cities; in houses where no one are lives in them, which are ready to become heaps.

²⁹ He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth hold out; nor shall he stretch out their gain on the earth.

³⁰ He shall not escape from darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches; and he shall turn at the breath of His mouth.

³¹ Let not he being deceived trust in vanity; for his reward shall be vanity.

³² Before his day it shall be fulfilled, and his branch shall not be green;

³³ he shall shake off its unripe grape as the vine; and he shall cast its flower like the olive.

³⁴ For the company of the ungodly shall be bleak; and fire shall devour the tents of bribery;

³⁵ they conceive mischief and generate evil; and their belly prepares deceit.