✧Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, ✧2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? ✧3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? ✧4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. ✧5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. ✧6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. ✧7[Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills? ✧8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? ✧9What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us? ✧10With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. ✧11[Are] the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? ✧12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, ✧13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth? ✧14What [is] man, that he should be clean? and [he which is] born of a woman, that he should be righteous? ✧15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. ✧16How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water? ✧17I will shew thee, hear me; and that [which] I have seen I will declare; ✧18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid [it:] ✧19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. ✧20The wicked man travaileth with pain all [his] days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. ✧21A dreadful sound [is] in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. ✧22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. ✧23He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ✧24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. ✧25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. ✧26He runneth upon him, [even] on [his] neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: ✧27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on [his] flanks. ✧28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. ✧29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. ✧30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. ✧31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. ✧32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. ✧33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. ✧34For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. ✧35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.