^{1 Ref} Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

^{2 Ref} "Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

^{3 Ref} Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches with which he can do no good?

^{4 Ref} Yes, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.

^{5 Ref} For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

^{6 Ref} Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.

^{7 Ref} "Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

^{8 Ref} Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

^{9 Ref} What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

^{10 Ref} With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.

^{11 Ref} Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?

^{12 Ref} Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

^{13 Ref} That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?

^{14 Ref} What is man, that he should be clean? He who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

^{15 Ref} Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

^{16 Ref} How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, A man who drinks iniquity like water!

^{17 Ref} "I will show you, listen to me; That which I have seen I will declare:

^{18 Ref} (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hidden it;

^{19 Ref} To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

^{20 Ref} The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

^{21 Ref} A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

^{22 Ref} He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.

^{23 Ref} He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

^{24 Ref} Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

^{25 Ref} Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

^{26 Ref} He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;

^{27 Ref} Because he has covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat on his loins.

^{28 Ref} He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

^{29 Ref} He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

^{30 Ref} He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

^{31 Ref} Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness shall be his reward.

^{32 Ref} It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

^{33 Ref} He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

^{34 Ref} For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

^{35 Ref} They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."