151And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --+2Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?+3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches--no profit in them?+4Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.+5For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.+6Thy mouth declareth thee wicked, and not I, And thy lips testify against thee.+7The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?+8Of the secret counsel of God dost thou hear? And withdrawest thou unto thee wisdom?+9What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou--and it is not with us?+10Both the gray-headed And the very aged are among us--Greater than thy father in days.+11Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,+12What--doth thine heart take thee away? And what--are thine eyes high?+13For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:+14What is man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?+15Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes.+16Also--surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.+17I shew thee--hearken to me--And this I have seen and declare:+18Which the wise declare--And have not hid--from their fathers.+19To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:+20`All days of the wicked he is paining himself, And few years have been laid up for the terrible one.+21A fearful voice is in his ears, In peace doth a destroyer come to him.+22He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.+23He is wandering for bread--`Where is it?' He hath known that ready at his hand Is a day of darkness.+24Terrify him do adversity and distress, They prevail over him As a king ready for a boaster.+25For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.+26He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.+27For he hath covered his face with his fat, And maketh vigour over his confidence.+28And he inhabiteth cities cut off, houses not dwelt in, That have been ready to become heaps.+29He is not rich, nor doth his wealth rise, Nor doth he stretch out on earth their continuance.+30He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!+31Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.+32Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.+33He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.+34For the company of the profane is gloomy, And fire hath consumed tents of bribery.+35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.+
Young's Literal Translation
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