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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge,

Should he reason with unprofitable talk,

Yes, you do away with fear,

For your iniquity teaches your mouth,

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I.

“Are you the first man who was born?

Have you heard the secret counsel of God?

What do you know that we don’t know?

With us are both the grey-headed and the very aged men,

Are the consolations of God too small for you,

Why does your heart carry you away?

that you turn your spirit against God,

What is man, that he should be clean?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,

“I will show you, listen to me;

(which wise men have told by their fathers,

to whom alone the land was given,

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days,

A sound of terrors is in his ears.

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’

Distress and anguish make him afraid.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God,

he runs at him with a stiff neck,

because he has covered his face with his fatness,

He has lived in desolate cities,

He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue,

He will not depart out of darkness.

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself,

It will be accomplished before his time.

He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine,

For the company of the godless will be barren,

They conceive mischief and produce iniquity.