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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2“A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk! You are nothing but a windbag.

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

3The wise don’t engage in empty chatter. What good are such words?

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

4Have you no fear of God, no reverence for him?

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

5Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception.

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

6Your own mouth condemns you, not I. Your own lips testify against you.

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

7“Were you the first person ever born? Were you born before the hills were made?

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

8Were you listening at God’s secret council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?

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

9What do you know that we don’t? What do you understand that we do not?

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

10On our side are aged, gray-haired men much older than your father!

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

11“Is God’s comfort too little for you? Is his gentle word not enough?

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

12What has taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision,

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

13that you turn against God and say all these evil things?

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

14Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?

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

15Look, God does not even trust the angels. Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.

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

16How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!

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

17“If you will listen, I will show you. I will answer you from my own experience.

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

18And it is confirmed by the reports of wise men who have heard the same thing from their fathers—

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

19from those to whom the land was given long before any foreigners arrived.

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

20“The wicked writhe in pain throughout their lives. Years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless.

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

21The sound of terror rings in their ears, and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.

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

22They dare not go out into the darkness for fear they will be murdered.

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

23They wander around, saying, ‘Where can I find bread?’ They know their day of destruction is near.

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

24That dark day terrifies them. They live in distress and anguish, like a king preparing for battle.

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

25For they shake their fists at God, defying the Almighty.

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

26Holding their strong shields, they defiantly charge against him.

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

27“These wicked people are heavy and prosperous; their waists bulge with fat.

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

28But their cities will be ruined. They will live in abandoned houses that are ready to tumble down.

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

29Their riches will not last, and their wealth will not endure. Their possessions will no longer spread across the horizon.

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

30“They will not escape the darkness. The burning sun will wither their shoots, and the breath of God will destroy them.

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

31Let them no longer fool themselves by trusting in empty riches, for emptiness will be their only reward.

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

32They will be cut down in the prime of life; their branches will never again be green.

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

33They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.

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

34For the godless are barren. Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.

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

35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb produces deceit.”

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

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