Then
answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
02 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and
fill his belly with the east wind?
03 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or
with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
04 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest
prayer before God.
05 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and
thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
06 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I:
yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
07 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast
thou made before the hills?
08 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost
thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
09 What knowest thou, that we know not? what
understandest thou, which is not in us?
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged
men, much elder than thy father.
11 Are the consolations of God small with thee?
is there any secret thing with thee?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what
do thy eyes wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and
lettest such words go out of thy 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 putteth no trust in his saints;
yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man,
which drinketh iniquity like water?
17 I will shew thee, 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 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no
stranger passed among them.
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20 The wicked man travaileth 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 shall come upon him.
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of
darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where
is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is
ready at his hand.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid;
they shall prevail against him, as a king ready
to the battle.
25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God,
and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon
the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness,
and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in
houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready
to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his
substance continue, neither shall he prolong the
perfection thereof upon the earth.
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.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity:
for vanity shall be his recompence.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and
his branch shall not be green.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the
vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be
desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles
of bribery.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth
vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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