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1Then Eliphaz from Teman responded:

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2"Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east?

2“A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk! You are nothing but a windbag.

3Should he engage in unprofitable argument, or give a speech that benefits no one?

3The wise don’t engage in empty chatter. What good are such words?

4Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God.

4Have you no fear of God, no reverence for him?

5Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty.

5Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception.

6Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you."

6Your own mouth condemns you, not I. Your own lips testify against you.

7"Were you the first person to be born? Were you brought forth before the hills were made?

7“Were you the first person ever born? Were you born before the hills were made?

8Have you listened in on God's secret council? Have you limited wisdom only to yourself?

8Were you listening at God’s secret council? Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?

9What do you know that we don't know, or that you understand and that isn't clear to us?

9What do you know that we don’t? What do you understand that we do not?

10"We have both the gray-haired and the aged with us, and they are far older than your father.

10On our side are aged, gray-haired men much older than your father!

11Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you?

11“Is God’s comfort too little for you? Is his gentle word not enough?

12Why have your emotions carried you away? And why do your eyes flash

12What has taken away your reason? What has weakened your vision,

13that you turn your anger against God and speak words like this?

13that you turn against God and say all these evil things?

14"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?

14Can any mortal be pure? Can anyone born of a woman be just?

15Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,

15Look, God does not even trust the angels. Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.

16then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"

16How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful person with a thirst for wickedness!

17"I'll tell you what, listen to me! Let me relate what I've seen,

17“If you will listen, I will show you. I will answer you from my own experience.

18which is what wise men have explained, who didn't withhold anything from their ancestors.

18And it is confirmed by the reports of wise men who have heard the same thing from their fathers—

19To them alone was the land given, when no invader passed through their midst.

19from those to whom the land was given long before any foreigners arrived.

20"The wicked person writhes in pain throughout his life, a number of years has been reserved for the ruthless.

20“The wicked writhe in pain throughout their lives. Years of trouble are stored up for the ruthless.

21Terrifying sounds ring in his ears; when times are prosperous, the Destroyer will attack him.

21The sound of terror rings in their ears, and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.

22He does not believe he will escape darkness; he is destined for the sword.

22They dare not go out into the darkness for fear they will be murdered.

23He wanders around for food—where is it? He knows that a time of darkness is near.

23They wander around, saying, ‘Where can I find bread?’ They know their day of destruction is near.

24Distress and pressure terrify him; they overwhelm him, like a king poised for attack.

24That dark day terrifies them. They live in distress and anguish, like a king preparing for battle.

25"For he has raised his fist against God, defying the Almighty.

25For they shake their fists at God, defying the Almighty.

26He defiantly ran against him carrying his thick, reinforced shield.

26Holding their strong shields, they defiantly charge against him.

27Though he covered his face with fat, and is grossly overweight at the waist,

27“These wicked people are heavy and prosperous; their waists bulge with fat.

28He will live in devastated towns, in abandoned houses that are about to become heaps of rubble.

28But their cities will be ruined. They will live in abandoned houses that are ready to tumble down.

29"He won't become rich and his wealth won't last; he won't expand his holdings to cover the land.

29Their riches will not last, and their wealth will not endure. Their possessions will no longer spread across the horizon.

30He won't escape darkness; a flame will wither his shoots; and he'll depart by the breath of God's mouth.

30“They will not escape the darkness. The burning sun will wither their shoots, and the breath of God will destroy them.

31Let him not trust in a worthless speech. He leads only himself astray, for emptiness will be his reward.

31Let them no longer fool themselves by trusting in empty riches, for emptiness will be their only reward.

32This will be accomplished before his time; his branches won't grow luxuriant.

32They will be cut down in the prime of life; their branches will never again be green.

33"He is like a vine that drops its unripe grapes; like an olive tree that loses its blossoms.

33They will be like a vine whose grapes are harvested too early, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms before the fruit can form.

34For the company of the godless is desolation, and fire consumes the tents of those who bribe.

34For the godless are barren. Their homes, enriched through bribery, will burn.

35For they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity; their womb is pregnant with deception."

35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Their womb produces deceit.”

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