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1 - Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

2 - Should a wise men 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, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

5 - For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

6 - Thy own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yes, thy own lips testify against thee.

7 - [Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

8 - Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

9 - What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?

10 - With us [are] both the gray headed and very aged men, much older than thy father.

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

12 - Why doth thy 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 who is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15 - Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

16 - How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, who drinketh iniquity like water?

17 - I will show 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 - To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

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 by 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 of it 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 recompense.

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.