1 ¶ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, See also: Job 2:11 Job 42:7 Job 4:1 Job 22:1 Job 42:9
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? See also: Job 6:26 Job 8:2 Job 11:2-3 Job 13:2 Hosea 12:1
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? See also: Matthew 12:36-37 Colossians 4:6 Job 13:4-5 Job 16:2-3 Job 26:1-3
4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. See also: Romans 3:31 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 Job 4:5-6 Job 5:8 Job 6:14
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. See also: Jeremiah 9:3-5 Psalms 50:19-20 Psalms 52:2-4 Jeremiah 9:8 Luke 6:45
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. See also: Luke 19:22 Job 9:20 Matthew 12:37 Job 33:8-12 Job 34:5-9
7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills? See also: Psalms 90:2 Job 12:12 Job 38:4-41 Proverbs 8:22-25 Genesis 4:1
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? See also: Romans 11:34 Jeremiah 23:18 Deuteronomy 29:29 Job 11:6 Job 12:2
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us? See also: Job 13:2 2 Corinthians 11:5 Job 12:3 Job 26:3-4 2 Corinthians 10:7
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father. See also: Job 32:6-7 Job 8:8-10 Job 12:12 Deuteronomy 32:7 Job 12:20
11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee? See also: Job 13:2 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 1 Kings 22:24 Job 5:8-26 Job 11:13-19
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at, See also: Psalms 35:19 Ecclesiastes 11:9 Mark 7:21-22 Job 11:13 Job 17:2
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? See also: Job 15:25-27 James 3:2-6 Job 9:4 Job 10:3 Job 12:6
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? See also: Ecclesiastes 7:20 Job 14:4 Proverbs 20:9 Romans 7:18 Job 25:4-6
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. See also: Job 4:18 Job 25:5 Job 5:1 Isaiah 6:2-5
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? See also: Job 34:7 Proverbs 19:28 Psalms 53:3 Romans 3:9-19 Titus 3:3
17 ¶ I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare; See also: Job 5:27 Job 13:5-6 Job 33:1 Job 34:2 Job 36:2
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it: See also: Job 8:8 Job 15:10 Psalms 71:18 Psalms 78:3-6 Isaiah 38:19
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them. See also: Joel 3:17 Genesis 10:25 Genesis 10:32 Deuteronomy 32:8
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. See also: Job 27:13 James 5:1-6 Job 24:1 Luke 12:19-21 Psalms 90:3-4
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him. See also: Job 18:11 1 Thessalonians 5:3 Leviticus 26:36 1 Corinthians 10:10 Job 1:13-19
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword. See also: Job 20:24-25 2 Kings 6:33 Job 6:11 Job 9:16 Job 19:29
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. See also: Job 18:12 Psalms 59:15 Psalms 109:10 Ecclesiastes 11:8 Amos 5:20
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. See also: Proverbs 6:11 Proverbs 24:34 Job 6:2-4 Psalms 119:143 Proverbs 1:27
25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty. See also: Job 9:4 Psalms 52:7 Psalms 73:9 Daniel 5:23 1 Samuel 6:6
26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers: See also: Genesis 49:8 2 Chronicles 28:22 2 Chronicles 32:13-17 Job 16:12 Psalms 18:40
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks. See also: Psalms 17:10 Psalms 73:7 Isaiah 6:10 Jeremiah 5:28 Deuteronomy 32:15
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps. See also: Job 3:14 Jeremiah 51:37 Job 18:15 Isaiah 5:8-10 Jeremiah 9:11
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth. See also: Job 27:16-17 James 1:11 Job 20:22-28 Job 22:15-20 Psalms 49:16-17
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away. See also: Job 4:9 Job 15:22 Job 18:5-6 Job 20:26 Matthew 25:41
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. See also: Isaiah 59:4 Galatians 6:3 Psalms 62:10 Hosea 8:7 Galatians 6:7-8
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. See also: Ecclesiastes 7:17 Psalms 55:23 Job 22:16 Hosea 9:16 Job 8:16-19
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive. See also: Deuteronomy 28:39-40 Isaiah 33:9 Revelation 6:13
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery. See also: Job 8:13 Job 27:8 Job 8:22 Micah 7:2 1 Samuel 8:3
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. See also: Psalms 7:14 Hosea 10:13 Isaiah 59:4-5 James 1:15 Galatians 6:7-8