1Then Eliphaz replied to Job:
2“If you were truly wise [RHQ], you would not have replied to us by claiming that you know a lot;
3You should not [RHQ] be saying things that do not benefit anyone,
4By what you say, you show that you do not revere God,
5It is as though your sins are telling you what to say;
6Everything that you say [MTY] shows that you should be punished;
7“Tell me do you know more than everyone else because you think that you are the first person who was ever born? [SAR, RHQ]
8Were you listening when God made all his plans? [SAR, RHQ]
9◄What do you know that we do not know?/You do not know anything that we do not know.► [RHQ]
10My friends and I are also wise;
11God wants to comfort you,
12Why do you allow yourself to be ◄carried away/excited► by your emotions?
13You are angry [IDM] with God,
14“◄How can any person, including you, be sinless?/No person, including you, can be sinless.► [RHQ]
15Hey, God does not even trust his angels;
16So, he certainly does not trust abominable/disgusting and depraved/corrupt people
17Job, listen to what I will tell you.
18things that wise men have told me,
19God gave this land to those ancestors, who were truly wise;
20It is wicked people who suffer with great pain all the time that they are alive;
21They constantly hear sounds that terrify them;
22Wicked people surely know that they will not escape from darkness/death,
23They wander around, searching for food, saying ‘Where can I find some?’
24Because they are afraid of those things happening to them, they are afraid and worry
25Those things happen to them because they ◄shook their fists/dared to fight► against Almighty God,
26They stubbornly [IDM] rush to attack God
27They are so fat that they are unable to fight.
28They will live in cities that have been abandoned,
29But they will not remain rich very long;
30They will not escape from the darkness of death;
31Since they are very foolish, with the result that they trust in things that are really worthless,
32Before they are old, they will wither;
33They will be like [SIM] vines whose grapes fall off before they are ripe,
34Wicked/godless people will not have any descendants,
35They plan to cause trouble and to do evil things,