1Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said:
2Should a wise man answer as the science of the wind, and fill his belly with the wind of the east?(Should a wise man give such an answer (as it were one that spake in the wind) and fill his stomach with anger?)
3Thou reprovest with words, that are nothing worth:(wroth) and speakest the things, which can do no good.
4As for shame, thou hast set it aside, else wouldest thou not make so many words before God:
5but thy wickedness teacheth thy mouth, and so thou hast chosen thee a crafty tongue.
6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine own lips shape the answer.
7Art thou the first man, that ever was born? Or, wast thou made before the hills?
8hast thou heard the secret counsel(councell) of God, that all wisdom is too little for thee?
9What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, but we can the same?
10With us are old and aged men, yea such as have lived longer than thy forefathers.
11Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? and are they with the living word.(Dost thou no more regard the comfort of God? but thy wicked words wil not suffer thee.)
12Why doth thine heart make thee so proud? Why standest thou so greatly in thine own conceit? Where unto look thine eyes,
13that thy mind is so puffed up against God and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
14What is man, that he should be clean? what hath he (which is born of a woman) whereby he might be known to be righteous?
15Behold there is no trust to his saints:(he hath founde unfaithfulnesse amoge his owne sanctes) yea the very heavens are not clean in his sight.
16How much more then an abominable and vile man, which drinketh wickedness like water?
17I will tell thee, hear me: I will shew thee a thing, that I know:
18which wise men have told, and hath not been hid from their fathers:
19unto whom only the land was given, that no stranger should come among them.
20The ungodly despaireth all the days of his life, and the number of a tyrant's years is unknown.
21A fearful sound is ever in his ears, and when it is peace yet feareth he destruction:
22He believeth never to be delivered out of darkness, the sword is alway before his eyes.
23When he goeth forth to get his living, he thinketh plainly, that the day of darkness is at hand.
24Sorrow and carefulness make him afraid, and compass him round about, like as it where a king with his host ready to the battle.
25For he hath stretched out his hand against God, and armed himself against the Almighty.
26He runneth proudly upon him, and with a stiffneck fighteth he against him:
27where as he covereth his face with fatness, and maketh his body well liking.
28Therefore shall his dwelling be in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabits, but are become heaps of stones.
29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, nor increase upon earth.
30He shall never come out of darkness, the flame shall dry up his branches, with the blast of the mouth of God shall he be taken away.
31He will never apply himself to faithfulness and truth, so sore is he deceived with vanity.
32He shall perish, afore his time be worn out, and his hand shall not be green.
33He shall be plucked off as an untimely grape from the vine, and shall let his flower fall, as the olive doth.
34For the congregation of hypocrites is unfruitful, and the fire shall consume the houses of such, as are greedy to receive gifts.
35He conceiveth travail, he beareth mischief, and his body bringeth forth deceit.