Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

"Who can bring a clean [thing] from an unclean [thing]? No one!

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

From the fragrance of water it doth flourish, And hath made a crop as a plant.

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

And man hath lain down, and riseth not, Till the wearing out of the heavens they awake not, Nor are roused from their sleep.

And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is removed from its place.

as water wears away stones
and torrents wash away the soil from the land,
so You destroy a man’s hope.

“You prevail forever against him and overpower him, and he passes on;
You change his appearance and send him away [from the presence of the living].

Then Eliphaz from Teman responded:

"Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east?

Shalt thou be the firm man born? and hadst thou a beginning before the hills?

For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

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

All the days of the lawless man, he, doth writhe with pain, and, the number of years, is hidden from the tyrant;

He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.

He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

He shall be plucked off as an untimely grape from the vine, and shall let his flower fall, as the olive doth.

Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.

If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?

“You have taken a firm hold on me and have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness [against me];
And my leanness [and infirmity] rises up [as evidence] against me,
It testifies to my face [about my guilt].

My face, is reddened from weeping, and, upon mine eyelashes, is the death-shade: -

although my hands are free from violence
and my prayer is pure.

“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].

Bildad from Shuah replied, saying:

(He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

"Indeed, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame from his fire doesn't shine.

Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

It shall dwell in his tent, from not to him: brimstone shall be scattered upon his dwelling.

From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am undone: My hope hath he taken away from me, as it were a tree plucked up by the root.

He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

Yea the children despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spake evil upon me.

All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.

Why will ye pursue me as God, and will ye not be satisfied from my flesh?

And if after my skin this shall be destroyed, yet from out of my flesh shall I see +God;

And fear ye to yourselves, from the face of the sword? for wrath the iniquities of the sword, so that ye shall know there is judgment

Then Zophar from Naamath replied:

Whenever I hear an insulting rebuke, I respond from my spirit because I understand."

This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

His children will seek favors from [the] poor, and his hands will return his wealth.

From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth.

Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;
he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

One hath drawn, And it cometh out from the body, And a glittering weapon from his gall proceedeth. On him are terrors.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

And though God save their children from such sorrow, yet will he so reward themselves, that they shall know it.

Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,

Indeed, [the] wicked is spared from [the] day of disaster; he is delivered from [the] day of wrath.

The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him.

Then in response, Eliphaz from Teman said:

Will he reprove thee from thy fear? Will he go with thee into judgment?

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.

They are the cause that so many men are naked and bare, having no clothes to cover them and keep them from cold;

From the inundation of hills they are wet, And without a refuge -- have embraced a rock.

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

“Within the walls [of the wicked] the poor make [olive] oil;
They tread [the grapes in] the wine presses, but thirst.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

Bildad from Shuah responded and said:

To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

“Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) is naked before God,
And Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes].

The pillars of the heavens shall be shaken, and be astonished from his reproof.

"The living God has withheld justice from me; the Almighty has made my life bitter.

as long as my breath is still in me
and the breath from God remains in my nostrils,

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

My justice I held fast, and I will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach from my days.

I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty: