| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill himself with the hot east wind? |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Should he argue with useless talk or with words that serve no good purpose? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Were you the first person ever born, or were you brought forth before the hills? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Do you listen in on the council of God, or have a monopoly on wisdom? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9What do you know that we don't? What do you understand that is not clear to us? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Both the gray-haired and the elderly are with us, men older than your father. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Are God's consolations not enough for you, even the words that deal gently with you? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Why has your heart misled you, and why do your eyes flash |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13as you turn your anger against God and allow such words to leave your mouth? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If God puts no trust in His holy ones and the heavens are not pure in His sight, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16how much less one who is revolting and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water? |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Listen to me and I will inform you. I will describe what I have seen, |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18what was declared by wise men and was not suppressed by their ancestors, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19the land was given to them alone when no foreigner passed among them. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Dreadful sounds fill his ears; when he is at peace, a robber attacks him. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He doesn't believe he will return from darkness; he is destined for the sword. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He wanders about for food, saying, "Where is it?" He knows the day of darkness is at hand. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Trouble and distress terrify him, overwhelming him like a king prepared for battle. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25For he has stretched out his hand against God and has arrogantly opposed the Almighty. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26He rushes headlong at Him with his thick, studded shields. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with it, |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure. His possessions will not increase in the land. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He will not escape from the darkness; flames will wither his shoots, and by the breath of God's mouth, he will depart. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Let him not put trust in worthless things, being led astray, for what he gets in exchange will prove worthless. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32It will be accomplished before his time, and his branch will not flourish. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34For the company of the godless will have no children, and fire will consume the tents of those who offer bribes. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb prepares deception. |
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