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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

1Then Eliphaz from Teman responded:

2"Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?

2"Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east?

3Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?

3Should he engage in unprofitable argument, or give a speech that benefits no one?

4But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.

4Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God.

5Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.

5Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty.

6Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.

6Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you."

7"Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

7"Were you the first person to be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made?

8Do you listen in on God's council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?

8Have you listened in on God's secret council? Have you limited wisdom only to yourself?

9What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?

9What do you know that we don't know, or that you understand and that isn't clear to us?

10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

10"We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far older than your father.

11Are God's consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?

11Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you?

12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

12Why have your emotions carried you away? And why do your eyes flash

13so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?

13that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this?

14"What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

14"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?

15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

15Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,

16how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!

16then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"

17"Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,

17"I'll tell you what, listen to me! Let me relate what I've seen,

18what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors

18which is what wise men have explained, who didn't withhold anything from their ancestors.

19(to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):

19To them alone was the land given, when no invader passed through their midst.

20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.

20"The wicked person writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless.

21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.

21Terrifying sounds ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack him.

22He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.

22He does not believe he will escape darkness; he is destined for the sword.

23He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

23He wanders around for food—where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near.

24Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,

24Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack.

25because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

25"For he has raised his fist against God, defying the Almighty.

26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.

26He defiantly ran against him carrying his thick, reinforced shield.

27"Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,

27Though he covered his face with fat, and is grossly overweight at the waist,

28he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.

28He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.

29He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

29"He won't become rich and his wealth won't last; he won't expand his holdings to cover the land.

30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.

30He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth.

31Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.

31Let him not trust in a worthless speech. He leads only himself astray, for emptiness will be his reward.

32Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.

32This will be accomplished before his time; his branches won't grow luxuriant.

33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.

33"He is like a vine that drops its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that loses its blossoms.

34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

34For the company of the godless is desolation, and fire consumes the tents of those who bribe.

35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit."

35For they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb is pregnant with deception."

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