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Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

He runneth upon him with a `stiff' neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; Yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

He wandereth abroad for bread, `saying', Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

(Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;

Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

Art thou the first man that was born? Or wast thou brought forth before the hills?

I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;

Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.

How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.

It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.

For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of `God's' mouth shall he go away.