Then answered{H6030} Eliphaz{H464} the Temanite,{H8489} and said,{H559}

Should a wise man{H2450} make answer{H6030} with vain{H7307} knowledge,{H1847} And fill{H4390} himself{H990} with the east wind?{H6921}

Should he reason{H3198} with unprofitable{H5532} talk,{H1697} Or with speeches{H4405} wherewith he can do no good?{H3276}

Yea, thou doest away{H6565} with fear,{H3374} And hinderest{H1639} devotion{H7881} before{H6440} God.{H410}

For thine iniquity{H5771} teacheth{H502} thy mouth,{H6310} And thou choosest{H977} the tongue{H3956} of the crafty.{H6175}

Thine own mouth{H6310} condemneth{H7561} thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips{H8193} testify{H6030} against thee.

Art thou the first{H7223} man{H120} that was born?{H3205} Or wast thou brought{H2342} forth before{H6440} the hills?{H1389}

Hast thou heard{H8085} the secret{H5475} counsel of God?{H433} And dost thou limit{H1639} wisdom{H2451} to thyself?

What knowest{H3045} thou, that we know{H3045} not? What understandest{H995} thou, which is not in us?

With us are both the gray-headed{H7867} and the very aged{H3453} men, Much{H3524} elder{H3117} than thy father.{H1}

Are the consolations{H8575} of God{H410} too small{H4592} for thee, Even the word{H1697} that is gentle{H328} toward thee?

Why doth thy heart{H3820} carry thee away?{H3947} And why do thine eyes{H5869} flash,{H7335}

That against God{H410} thou turnest{H7725} thy spirit,{H7307} And lettest words{H4405} go out{H3318} of thy mouth?{H6310}

What is man,{H582} that he should be clean?{H2135} And he that is born{H3205} of a woman,{H802} that he should be righteous?{H6663}

Behold, he putteth no trust{H539} in his holy{H6918} ones; Yea, the heavens{H8064} are not clean{H2141} in his sight:{H5869}

How much less one{H376} that is abominable{H8581} and corrupt, A man{H376} that drinketh{H8354} iniquity{H5766} like water!{H4325}

I will show{H2331} thee, hear{H8085} thou me; And that which I have seen{H2372} I will declare:{H5608}

(Which wise{H2450} men have told{H5046} From their fathers,{H1} and have not hid{H3582} it;

Unto whom alone the land{H776} was given,{H5414} And no stranger{H2114} passed{H5674} among{H8432} them):

The wicked{H7563} man travaileth{H2342} with pain all his days,{H3117} Even the number{H4557} of years{H8141} that are laid{H6845} up for the oppressor.{H6184}

A sound{H6963} of terrors{H6343} is in his ears;{H241} In prosperity{H7965} the destroyer{H7703} shall come{H935} upon him.

He believeth{H539} not that he shall return{H7725} out of darkness,{H2822} And he is waited{H6822} for of the sword.{H2719}

He wandereth abroad{H5074} for bread,{H3899} [saying], Where is it? He knoweth{H3045} that the day{H3117} of darkness{H2822} is ready{H3559} at his hand.{H3027}

Distress{H6862} and anguish{H4691} make him afraid;{H1204} They prevail{H8630} against him, as a king{H4428} ready{H6264} to the battle.{H3593}

Because he hath stretched out{H5186} his hand{H3027} against God,{H410} And behaveth himself proudly{H1396} against the Almighty;{H7706}

He runneth{H7323} upon him with a [stiff] neck,{H6677} With the thick{H5672} bosses{H1354} of his bucklers;{H4043}

Because he hath covered{H3680} his face{H6440} with his fatness,{H2459} And gathered{H6213} fat{H6371} upon his loins;{H3689}

And he hath dwelt{H7931} in desolate{H3582} cities,{H5892} In houses{H1004} which no man inhabited,{H3427} Which were ready{H6257} to become heaps;{H1530}

He shall not be rich,{H6238} neither shall his substance{H2428} continue,{H6965} Neither shall their possessions{H5186} be extended{H4512} on the earth.{H776}

He shall not depart{H5493} out of darkness;{H2822} The flame{H7957} shall dry up{H3001} his branches,{H3127} And by the breath{H7307} of [God's] mouth{H6310} shall he go away.{H5493}

Let him not trust{H539} in vanity,{H7723} deceiving{H8582} himself; For vanity{H7723} shall be his recompense.{H8545}

It shall be accomplished{H4390} before{H3808} his time,{H3117} And his branch{H3712} shall not be green.{H7488}

He shall shake off{H2554} his unripe grape{H1154} as the vine,{H1612} And shall cast off{H7993} his flower{H5328} as the olive-tree.{H2132}

For the company{H5712} of the godless{H2611} shall be barren,{H1565} And fire{H784} shall consume{H398} the tents{H168} of bribery.{H7810}

They conceive{H2029} mischief,{H5999} and bring forth{H3205} iniquity,{H205} And their heart{H990} prepareth{H3559} deceit.{H4820}