1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded and said:
2. “Does a wise man answer with empty knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
3. Does he argue with useless talk and words that have no value in them?
4. You even do away with reverence and hinder devotion before God.
5. For your iniquity prompts your mouth and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
6. Your own mouth condemns you—not I; your own lips testify against you.
7. “Are you the first man to be born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
8. Do you listen in on God’s counsel? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9. What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that we do not understand?
10. Both gray-haired and aged are with us, men even older than your father.
11. Are the comforts of God too small for you, or a gentle word toward you?