How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

I will show thee. Hear thou me, and that which I have seen I will declare,

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.

to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them:

And he has dwelt in desolate cities, in houses which no man inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

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

He runs upon him with a [stiff] neck, with the thick studs of his bucklers,

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.

The wicked man travails with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness. And he is awaited by the sword.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

What is man, that he should be clean? And he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself. For vanity shall be his recompense.

He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of [God's] mouth he shall go away.

Yea, thou do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

Have thou heard the secret counsel of God? And do thou limit wisdom to thyself?

For the company of the hypocrites shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

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

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty.

For thine iniquity teaches thy mouth. And thou choose the tongue of the crafty.

Thine own mouth condemns thee, and not I. Yes, thine own lips testify against thee.

Are the consolations of God too small for thee, even the word that is gentle toward thee?

that against God thou turn thy spirit, and let words go out of thy mouth?

Are thou the first man who was born? Or were thou brought forth before the hills?

What do thou know, that we do not know? What do thou understand, which is not in us?

Why does thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?