^[1]  Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

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^[2]  Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

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^[3]  Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?

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^[4]  Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

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^[5]  For your mouth utters your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

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^[6]  Your own mouth condemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.

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^[7]  Are you the first man that was born? or were you made before the hills?

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^[8]  Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?

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^[9]  What know you, that we know not? what understand you, which is not in us?

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^[10]  With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much elder than your father.

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^[11]  Are the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing with you?

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^[12]  Why does your heart carry you away? and what do your eyes wink at,

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^[13]  That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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^[14]  What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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^[15]  Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

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^[16]  How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinks iniquity like water?

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^[17]  I will show you, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

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^[18]  Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

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^[19]  To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

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^[20]  The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

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^[21]  A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

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^[22]  He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

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^[23]  He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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^[24]  Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

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^[25]  For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself against the Almighty.

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^[26]  He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:

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^[27]  Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes bulges of fat on his flanks.

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^[28]  And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

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^[29]  He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof on the earth.

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^[30]  He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

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^[31]  Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense.

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^[32]  It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

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^[33]  He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

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^[34]  For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

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^[35]  They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

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