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 talk that is not useful, or with speeches which have no profit?

⁴ Yea, you do away with fear, and take away prayer 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 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 gray-headed and aged, mightier than your father as to days.

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

¹² Why does your heart carry you away? And what do your eyes wink at,

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 what is he born of a woman that he should be righteous?

¹⁵ Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.

¹⁶ How much more hateful and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

¹⁷ I will show you; hear me; and what I have seen I will declare,

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

¹⁹ to them alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

²⁰ The wicked man labors in pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden for the ruthless one.

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

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

²³ He wanders for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

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

²⁵ because he stretches out his hand against God, and sets himself 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; he has put fat on his loins.

²⁸ And he lives in cut off cities, in houses where none are living, which are ready to become heaps.

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

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

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

³² It shall be done before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

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

³⁴ For the company of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall devour the tents of bribery.

³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.