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| 1 Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said: |
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| 2 Should, a wise man, answer unreal knowledge? or fill, with the east wind, his inner man? |
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| 3 Disputing with discourse that doth no good, or with speech, wherein is no profit? |
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| 4 But, thou, wouldst take away reverence, and wouldst attain unto meditation before GOD. |
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| 5 For thine own mouth would teach thine iniquity, and thou wouldst choose the tongue of the crafty. |
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| 6 Thine own mouth shall condemn thee, and, not I, And, thine own lips, shall testify against thee. |
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| 7 The first of mankind, wast thou born? Or, before the hills, wast thou brought forth? |
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| 8 In the secret council of GOD, hast thou been wont to hearken? Or canst thou attain for thyself unto wisdom? |
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| 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? [What] understandest thou, and the same, is not with us? |
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| 10 Both hoary and venerable, are among us, one mightier than thy father in days! |
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| 11 Too small for thee, are the consolations of GOD? or a word spoken gently with thee? |
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| 12 How doth thine own heart carry thee away, and how thine eyes do roll! |
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| 13 For thy spirit, replieth against GOD, and thou bringest forth–out of thy mouth–words! |
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| 14 What is a mortal, that he should be pure? or that righteous should be one born of a woman? |
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| 15 Lo! in his holy ones, he putteth not confidence, and, the heavens, are not pure in his eyes: |
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| 16 How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in–like water–perversity. |
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| 17 I will tell thee–hear me, Since this I have seen, I must needs declare it. |
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| 18 Which, wise men, tell, and deny not [that which is] from their fathers. |
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| 19 To them alone, was the earth given, and no alien passed through their midst: |
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| 20 All the days of the lawless man, he, doth writhe with pain, and, the number of years, is hidden from the tyrant; |
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| 21 A noise of dreadful things, is in his ears, In prosperity, the destroyer cometh upon him; |
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| 22 He hath no confidence to come back out of darkness, he, being destined to the power oft the sword; |
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| 23 A wanderer, he, for bread, [saying] Where [is it]? He knoweth that, prepared by his own hand, is the day of darkness; |
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| 24 Distress and anguish shall startle him, It shall overpower him, like a king ready for the onset: |
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| 25 Because he had stretched out–against GOD–his hand, and, against the Almighty, had been wont to behave himself proudly; |
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| 26 He used to run against him with uplifted neck, with the stout bosses of his bucklers; |
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| 27 For he had covered his face with his fatness, and had gathered a superabundance on his loins; |
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| 28 And had inhabited demolished cities, houses, wherein men would not dwell, that were destined to become heaps. |
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| 29 He shall not be rich, nor shall his substance continue, neither shall their shadow stretch along on the earth; |
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| 30 He shall not depart out of darkness, his young branch, shall the flame dry up, and he shall depart, by the breath of his own mouth! |
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| 31 Let no one trust in him that–by vanity–is deceived, for, vanity, shall be his recompense; |
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| 32 Before his day, shall it be accomplished, with, his palm-top, not covered with leaves; |
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| 33 He shall wrong–like a vine–his sour grapes, and shall cast off–as an olive-tree–his blossom. |
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| 34 For, the family of the impious, is unfruitful, and, a fire, hath devoured the tents of bribery; |
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| 35 Conceiving mischief, and bringing forth iniquity, yea, their inmost soul, prepareth deceit. |
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