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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 “Does a wise one answer with knowledge of wind, and fill his belly with the east wind? “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? “Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
3 Should he reason with a word that does not benefit, and with words without profit in them? Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?
4 Indeed, you break apart fear, and diminish meditation before the face of God. But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
6 Your own mouth declares you wicked, and not I; and your lips testify against you. Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.
7 Were you born as the first man? And were you formed before the face of the hills? “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8 Do you listen in the council of God, and reduce to yourself wisdom? Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
9 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not with us? What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?
10 Even the gray-haired and the aged are with us—greater than your father in days. Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father. The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, or a word in gentleness to you? Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you? Are God’s consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?
12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash, Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
13 that you should turn your spirit against God, and bring out such words out of your mouth? that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth? so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?
14 What is man that he should be pure, or that he should be righteous, one born of woman? What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? “What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?
15 Behold, He does not trust in His holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in His eyes; Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
16 also surely the abominable and corrupt one is a man drinking iniquity like water! how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water! how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!
17 I will tell you! Listen to me, and this that I have seen I will recount— “I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare “Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,
18 what the wise have brought forward and have not concealed from their fathers, (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers, what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors
19 to whom alone the land was given, and a stranger did not pass over in their midst. to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them). (to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):
20 All the days of the wicked, he is writhing, and the number of years is hidden for the ruthless. The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless. All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.
21 The voice of dread is in his ears; in prosperity, the destroyer comes upon him. Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him. Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.
22 He is not sure to return from darkness, and he is watched over unto the sword. He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword. He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.
23 He is is wandering for bread for vultures, knowing that a day of darkness is ready at his hand. He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand; He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
24 Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready for the attack. distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle. Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,
25 For he stretched out his hand against God, and against Shaddai he sought to prevail, Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty, because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
26 running against Him with the neck, with thickness of the bosses of his shields. running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield; defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
27 For he has covered his face with his fat, and made thick fat upon his loin. because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist “Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,
28 And he dwells in desolate cities, houses in which they do not dwell, which are ready to be heaps. and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins; he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.
29 He will not be rich, and his wealth will not stand, nor will his possessions stretch out over the earth. he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth; He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
30 He will not turn aside from darkness; the flame will dry out his shoot, and he will turn aside at the breath of His mouth. he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart. He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
31 Do not let him trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his recompense. Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment. Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.
32 Not in his day will it be fulfilled, and his branch will not be green. It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green. Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.
33 He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine, and he will cast off his blossom like an olive tree. He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree. He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.
34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery. For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.
35 They conceive trouble and give birth to inquity, and their belly prepares deceit.” They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.” They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”
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