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

Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?

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

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a 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 river decays and dries up:

so man lies down never to rise again.
They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;
they will not stir from their sleep.

"But a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place.

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

Thou prevailest against him, so that he passeth away; thou changes his estate, and puttest him from thee.

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?

when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your 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 cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.

"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.

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.

"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking -- how much of it goes away?

My face is foul from weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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

Indeed, [after] {a few years} have come, then I will go [the] way [from which] I will not return.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding: therefore shall you 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 my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

They will set the night for day: the light being near from the face of darkness.

Bildad from Shuah replied, saying:

"[You who] are tearing {yourself} in your anger, will [the] earth be forsaken because of you? Or will [the] rock be removed from its place?

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

He is torn from his tent {in which he trusted}, and it brought him 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 memory 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 has 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 has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly 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 after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will 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."

"Did you know this from of old, since the setting of [the] human being 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.

He swallows riches, but he vomits them [up]; God drives them out from his stomach.

That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: from the proceeds of business he shall not rejoice.

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 bronze shall strike him through.

He draws [it] forth, and it comes out from [his] body, and [the] glittering point comes from his gall-bladder; terrors come upon him.

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 your ways.

Lo, their prosperity 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 you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Who said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do to us?

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

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

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tents.

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

There the righteous might reason with him; so should I be delivered forever 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.

For this cause, from his presence, am I driven in fear, I diligently consider and am kept back from him in dread:

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has 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 the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.

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;

They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock {without} refuge.

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

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

They press oil between the olive groves owned by the wicked; they suffer from thirst, even while treading the winepress.

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God charges 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 have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?

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

yea, and all they which dwell beneath in the hell are not hid from him, and the very destruction itself cannot be kept out of his sight.

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

"As truly as God liveth, which hath taken away my power from me; and the Almighty, that hath vexed my mind;

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 my 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 teach you in the name of God: and the thing that I have of the Almighty, will I not keep from you.

This is the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.

He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.

Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,