Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God

1Then answered Eliphas the Themanite, and sayde:

2Shulde a wyse man geue soch an answere (as it were one that spake in the wynde) and fyll his stomacke with anger?

3Thou reprouest wt wordes, that are nothinge wroth: and speakest the thinges, which can do no good.

4As for shame, thou hast set it asyde, els woldest thou not make so many wordes before God:

5but thy wickednesse teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen the a craftie tonge.

6Thine owne mouth condemneth the, and not I: yee thine owne lippes shappe the an answere.

7Art thou the first man, that euer was borne? Or, wast thou made before the hylles?

8hast thou herde the secrete councell of God, that all wysdome is to litle for ye?

9What knowest thou, yt we knowe not? What vnderstondest thou, but we can the same?

10With vs are olde and aged men, yee soch as haue lyued longer then thy forefathers.

11Dost thou nomore regarde the comforte of God? but thy wicked wordes wil not suffre the.

12Why doth thine herte make the so proude? Why stondest thou so greatly in thine owne conceate? Where vnto loke thine eyes,

13yt thy mynde is so puft vp agaynst God & lettest soch wordes go out of thy mouth?

14What is man, that he shulde be vncleane? what hath he (which is borne of a woman) wherby he might be knowne to be rightuous?

15Beholde, he hath founde vnfaithfulnesse amoge his owne sanctes: yee the very heauens are vnclene in his sight.

16How moch more then an abhominable and vyle ma, which dryncketh wickednesse like water?

17I will tell the, heare me: I wil shewe the a thinge, that I knowe:

18which wyse men haue tolde, & hath not bene hyd from their fathers:

19vnto whom only the londe was geuen, that no straunger shulde come amonge them.

20The vngodly despayreth all the dayes of his life, & the nombre of a tyrauntes yeares is vnknowne.

21A fearfull sounde is euer in his eares, & when it is peace, yet feareth he destruccion:

22He beleueth neuer to be delyuered out of darcknesse, the swearde is allwaye before his eyes.

23When he goeth forth to get his lyuinge, he thinketh planely, that the daye of darcknesse is at honde.

24Sorow and carefulnesse make him afrayed, & copasse him rounde aboute, like as it were a kinge with his hoost redy to the battayll.

25For he hath stretched out his honde agaynst God, & armed himself agaynst ye Allmightie.

26He runneth proudly vpon him, & with a stiff necke fighteth he agaynst him:

27where as he couereth his face with fatnesse, and maketh his body well lykynge.

28Therfore shall his dwellynge be in desolate cities, & in houses which no ma inhabiteth, but are become heapes of stones.

29He shall not be rich, nether shall his substaunce continue, ner encrease vpon earth.

30He shal neuer come out of darcknesse, the flame shal drye vp his braunches, with ye blast of the mouth of God shal he be take awaie.

31He wil nether applye himself to faithfulnes ner treuth, so sore is he disceaued wt vanite.

32He shall perish, afore his tyme be worne out, and his honde shal not be grene.

33He shalbe pluckte of as an vntymely grape from ye vyne, and shal let his floure fall, as the olyue doth.

34For the congregacion of Ypocrites is vnfrutefull, & the fyre shal consume the houses of soch, as are gredy to receaue giftes.

35He conceaueth trauayle, he beareth myschefe, & his body bryngeth forth disceate.