1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge,
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk,
4Yea, thou doest away with fear,
5For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;
7Art thou the first man that was born?
8Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God?
9What knowest thou, that we know not?
10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,
11Are the consolations of God too small for thee,
12Why doth thy heart carry thee away?
13That against God thou turnest thy spirit,
14What is man, that he should be clean?
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones;
16How much less one that is abominable and corrupt,
17I will show thee, hear thou me;
18(Which wise men have told
19Unto whom alone the land was given,
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,
21A sound of terrors is in his ears;
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,
23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
24Distress and anguish make him afraid;
25Because he hath stretched out his hand against God,
26He runneth upon him with a stiff neck,
27Because he hath covered his face with his fatness,
28And he hath dwelt in desolate cities,
29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
30He shall not depart out of darkness;
31Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself;
32It shall be accomplished before his time,
33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
34For the company of the godless shall be barren,
35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity,