1. Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2. Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4. Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
5. For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7. Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?
8. Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?
9. What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
10. With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
11. Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?
12. Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,
13. That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?
14. What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
16. How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
17. I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:
18. (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
19. Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):