1. Eliphaz answered:
2. Will the wise respond with windy knowledgeand fill their belly with the east wind?
3. Will they argue with a word that has no benefitand with unprofitable words?
4. You are truly making religion ineffectiveand restraining meditation before God.
5. Your mouth multiplies your sins a thousand times;you opt for a clever tongue.
6. Your mouth condemns you, not I;your lips argue against you.
7. Were you born the first Adam,brought forth before the hills?
8. Did you listen in God’s council;is wisdom limited to you?
9. What do you know that we don’t know;what do you understand that isn’t among us?