1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge,
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk?
4Yea, thou castest off fear,
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity,
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I;
7Art thou the first man that was born?
8Hast thou heard the secret of God?
9What knowest thou, that we know not?
10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men,
11Are the consolations of God small with thee?
12Why doth thine heart carry thee away?
13That thou turnest thy spirit against God,
14What is man, that he should be clean?
15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints;
16How much more abominable and filthy
17I will shew thee, hear me;
18Which wise men have told
19Unto whom alone the earth was given,
20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days,
21A dreadful sound is in his ears:
22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness,
23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it?
24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid;
25For he stretcheth out his hand against God,
26He runneth upon him, even on his neck,
27Because he covereth his face with his fatness,
28And he dwelleth in desolate cities,
29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue,
30He shall not depart out of darkness;
31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity:
32It shall be accomplished before his time,
33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine,
34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate,
35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity,