¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Cross refs

² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Cross refs

³ Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Cross refs

⁴ Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Cross refs

⁵ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. Cross refs

⁶ Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. Cross refs

⁷ Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? Cross refs

⁸ Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? Cross refs

⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? Cross refs

¹⁰ With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. Cross refs

¹¹ Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? Cross refs

¹² Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, Cross refs

¹³ That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? Cross refs

¹⁴ What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Cross refs

¹⁵ Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. Cross refs

¹⁶ How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? Cross refs

¹⁷ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; Cross refs

¹⁸ Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: Cross refs

¹⁹ Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. Cross refs

²⁰ The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. Cross refs

²¹ A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. Cross refs

²² He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. Cross refs

²³ He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. Cross refs

²⁴ Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. Cross refs

²⁵ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. Cross refs

²⁶ He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: Cross refs

²⁷ Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks. Cross refs

²⁸ And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. Cross refs

²⁹ He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. Cross refs

³⁰ He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. Cross refs

³¹ Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. Cross refs

³² It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. Cross refs

³³ He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. Cross refs

³⁴ For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. Cross refs

³⁵ They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. Cross refs