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1Then Eliphaz from Teman responded:

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

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

2"Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?

3Should he engage in unprofitable argument, or give a speech that benefits no one?

3Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?

4Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God.

4But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.

5Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty.

5Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.

6Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you."

6Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.

7"Were you the first person to be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made?

7"Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

8Have you listened in on God's secret council? Have you limited wisdom only to yourself?

8Do you listen in on God's council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?

9What do you know that we don't know, or that you understand and that isn't clear to us?

9What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?

10"We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far older than your father.

10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.

11Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you?

11Are God's consolations not enough for you, words spoken gently to you?

12Why have your emotions carried you away? And why do your eyes flash

12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

13that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this?

13so that you vent your rage against God and pour out such words from your mouth?

14"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?

14"What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?

15Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,

15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

16then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"

16how much less mortals, who are vile and corrupt, who drink up evil like water!

17"I'll tell you what, listen to me! Let me relate what I've seen,

17"Listen to me and I will explain to you; let me tell you what I have seen,

18which is what wise men have explained, who didn't withhold anything from their ancestors.

18what the wise have declared, hiding nothing received from their ancestors

19To them alone was the land given, when no invader passed through their midst.

19(to whom alone the land was given when no foreigners moved among them):

20"The wicked person writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless.

20All his days the wicked man suffers torment, the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.

21Terrifying sounds ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack him.

21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; when all seems well, marauders attack him.

22He does not believe he will escape darkness; he is destined for the sword.

22He despairs of escaping the realm of darkness; he is marked for the sword.

23He wanders around for food—where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near.

23He wanders about for food like a vulture; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

24Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack.

24Distress and anguish fill him with terror; troubles overwhelm him, like a king poised to attack,

25"For he has raised his fist against God, defying the Almighty.

25because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

26He defiantly ran against him carrying his thick, reinforced shield.

26defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.

27Though he covered his face with fat, and is grossly overweight at the waist,

27"Though his face is covered with fat and his waist bulges with flesh,

28He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.

28he will inhabit ruined towns and houses where no one lives, houses crumbling to rubble.

29"He won't become rich and his wealth won't last; he won't expand his holdings to cover the land.

29He will no longer be rich and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

30He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth.

30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.

31Let him not trust in a worthless speech. He leads only himself astray, for emptiness will be his reward.

31Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless, for he will get nothing in return.

32This will be accomplished before his time; his branches won't grow luxuriant.

32Before his time he will wither, and his branches will not flourish.

33"He is like a vine that drops its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that loses its blossoms.

33He will be like a vine stripped of its unripe grapes, like an olive tree shedding its blossoms.

34For the company of the godless is desolation, and fire consumes the tents of those who bribe.

34For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

35For they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb is pregnant with deception."

35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit."

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