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1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
5 For your mouth utters your iniquity, 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 [Are] you the first man [that] was born? or were you made before the hills?
8 Have you heard the secret of God? and do you restrain wisdom to yourself?
9 What knows you, that we know not? [what] understand you, which [is] not in us?
10 With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than your father.
11 [Are] the consolations of God small with you? is there any secret thing 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 [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinks iniquity like water?
17 I will show you, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare;
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it]:
19 To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 The wicked man travails with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21 A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
22 He believes not that he will return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23 He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Trouble and anguish will make him afraid; they will prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26 He runs upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27 Because he covers his face with his fatness, and makes collops of fat on [his] flanks.
28 And he dwells in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.
29 He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.
30 He will not depart out of darkness; the flame will dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth will he go away.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity will be his recompence.
32 It will be accomplished before his time, and his branch will not be green.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites [will be] desolate, and fire will consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.