1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2. “Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?
3. Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value?
4. But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
5. Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the crafty.
6. Your own mouth condemns you, not mine; your own lips testify against you.
7. “Are you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8. Do you listen in on God’s council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
9. What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?
10. The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.