1Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,2Does the wise man answer with knowledge of spirit and fill his belly with east wind?3Does he argue with a word that is not useful, and with speeches that do not profit?4You also break fear and diminish meditation before God.5for your lip teaches your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the prudent.6Your lip declares you wicked, and not I; and your lips answer against you.7Were you the first man born, or were you brought forth before the hills?8Do you listen in the counsel of God, and do you limit wisdom to yourself?9What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not with us?10Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, mightier than your father in days.11Are the consolations of God too little for you, or a word spoken softly to you?12What has taken your heart, and why do your eyes flash?13For you turn your spirit against God and bring forth words from your mouth.14What is man, that he should be clean, and one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?15Look, he puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes.16Also one who is abhorred and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water.17Listen to me, and I will explain; for this I have seen, and I will declare,18what wise men have told and have not concealed from their fathers,19to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.20All the days of the wicked man he trembles, and the number of years is stored up for the ruthless.21A sound of terrors is in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer comes upon him.22He does not believe he will return from darkness, and he is watched toward the sword.23He wanders for food, saying, "Where is it?" He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand.24Distress and anguish terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for battle,25for he has stretched out his hand against God and acts defiantly toward the Almighty.26He runs at him with neck, with the thickness of the backs of his shields.27For he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his loins.28He lived in ruined cities, in houses no one inhabits, which were ready to become heaps.29He will not become rich, nor will his wealth arise, nor will he stretch his gain to the land.30He will not turn aside from darkness; his shoot withers by flame, and he turns aside by the spirit of his lip.31Let him not trust in what is empty; he has gone astray, for emptiness will be his recompense.32Before his day it will be filled, and his branch will not be fresh.33He injures his unripe grapes like a vine, and he throws off his flower like an olive tree.34For the assembly of the godless is desolate, and fire consumes the tents of the one who takes a bribe.35They conceive trouble and bring forth evil, and their belly prepares deceit.