And undertaking, Eliphaz the Temanite says,
Is it that a wise man an answer will give of an understanding spirit, and filled up the misery of the womb,
reproving in sayings in which must not be spoken with words, in which no one benefits?
And did you not undo fear, and complete sayings such before the lord?
You are liable by the sayings of your mouth, of which you litigated sayings of mighty ones.
May reprove you your mouth, and not I. Your lips, may they bear witness against you.
For what, are you the first man born? or before the hills were you banked up?
the arranged order of the lord have you heard? and unto you arrived wisdom?
For what do you know, which we do not know? or what do you perceive, which do not also we?
And indeed an elder, and indeed an old one is among us, more weighty than your father, in days.
but little for your sins You have been whipped, but greatly above measure have you spoken.
What did dare your heart? or what have added to see your eyes?
that your rage tore before the lord, and led forth from out of your mouth sayings such?
For who, being a mortal, still will be blameless? or as being just who is born of a woman?
forasmuch as the holy ones he trusts not, and the heaven is not pure before him.
Alas then, is abhorrent and unclean man, drinking iniquity equal to a beverage.
But I will report to you, hear me! What indeed I have seen, I will report to you —
what the wise men shall say, and what was not hidden from their fathers.
To them alone was given the earth, and no foreigner upon them.
All the existence of the impious is spent in bewilderment; and the years are counted being given to the mighty one,
and his fear is in his ears. Whenever the impious should seem already at peace, shall come his undoing.
Let him not trust to return from darkness, for he has been given charge already unto the hands of iron.
And he has been delegated for the grain of vultures, and he knows in himself that he waits for being a corpse; day and a dark him shall whirl away.
And distress and affliction him shall hold down. as a commandant of the front rank His falling down.
For he has lifted hands against the lord, and before the almighty he stiffened his neck.
And he ran against his insolence with the thickness of the back of his shield.
For he covered his face with his fat, and made a cleft upon the thighs.
And may he be lodged in cities desolate, and enter houses uninhabited; and what these prepared, others shall carry away.
Nor shall he be enriched, nor shall remain his possessions; in no way shall he cast upon the earth a shadow.
Neither shall he flee from the darkness; his bud may wither wind, may fall off his flower.
Let him not trust that he will remain behind, for emptiness shall result to him.
His pruning before its season shall be corrupted, and his tender branch in no way shall become dense.
And may he be gathered as an unripe grape before its season; and may he fall off as the flower of the olive.
For the testimony of an impious man is death, and fire shall burn the houses of the ones taking bribes.
in the womb he shall conceive griefs, and there shall result unto him emptiness, and his belly shall endure deceit.