1. And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2. Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
3. Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
4. Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before ·God
5. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
6. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
7. Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
8. Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
9. What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou which is not in us?
10. Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
11. Are the consolations of ·God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?