Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7 Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?
10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
11 Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
12 Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,
13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
17 I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24 Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25 For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
26 He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
27 Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
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.
31 Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
34 For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
1Afei Elifas, Temanni no, buaeɛ kaa sɛ,Under pastoral review
2Ɛsɛ sɛ onyansafoɔ ka nimdeɛ hunu, na ɔde apueeɛ fam mframa hyɛ ne yafunu ma anaa?Under pastoral review
3Ɛsɛ sɛ ɔde nsɛm a mfasoɔ nni so di akyinnyeɛ anaa? anaa nsɛm a ɔntumi mfa nyɛ papa biara?Under pastoral review
4Aane, woto suro twene, na wosi mpaeɛbɔ kwan wɔ Onyankopɔn anim.Under pastoral review
5Efisɛ w'ano ka w'amumuyɛ, na wopaw anifirefoɔ tɛkrɛma.Under pastoral review
6W'ankasa w'ano bu wo fɔ, na ɛnyɛ me: aane, w'ankasa w'anofafa di adanseɛ tia wo.Under pastoral review
7Wone onipa a wɔdi kan woo no anaa? anaasɛ wɔyɛɛ wo ansa na nkokoɔ reba anaa?Under pastoral review
8Woate Onyankopɔn kokoamsɛm anaa? na wosi nyansa kwan ma wo ho anaa?Under pastoral review
9Ɛdeɛn na wonim, a yɛnnim? ɛdeɛn na wote aseɛ, a ɛnni yɛn mu?Under pastoral review
10Wɔn a wɔn ti afu dwen ne mmarima a wɔanyini yie wɔ yɛn nkyɛn, wɔn a wɔanyini sene w'agya kɛseɛ.Under pastoral review
11Onyankopɔn awerɛkyekyerɛ sua wɔ wo hɔ anaa? kokoamsɛm bi wɔ wo nkyɛn anaa?Under pastoral review
12Adɛn enti na w'akoma soa wo kɔ? na ɛdeɛn na w'ani bum kyerɛ,Under pastoral review
13A enti wodane wo honhom tia Onyankopɔn, na woma nsɛm a ɛte saa firi w'anom?Under pastoral review
14Ɛdeɛn ne onipa, a ɛsɛ sɛ ne ho te? na deɛ ɔbaa awo no, a ɛsɛ sɛ ɔtene?Under pastoral review
15Hwɛ, ɔmfa ne ho nto n'ahotefoɔ so; aane, ɔsoro ho nte n'ani so.Under pastoral review
16Nsotoɔ sɛn na onipa yɛ akyiwadeɛ ne fi, deɛ ɔnom amumuyɛ sɛ nsuo?Under pastoral review
17Mɛkyerɛ wo, tie me; na deɛ mahunu no, mɛka;Under pastoral review
18Deɛ anyansafoɔ aka afiri wɔn agyanom hɔ, na wɔamfa anhinta:Under pastoral review
19Wɔn nko ara na wɔde asase maa wɔn, na ɔhɔhoɔ biara antwam wɔn mu.Under pastoral review
20Ɔdebɔneyɛni de yea brɛ ne nna nyinaa, na wɔde mfeɛ dodoɔ asie ɔhyɛsofoɔ.Under pastoral review
21Nnyegyeɛ a ɛyɛ hu wɔ n'asom: yiedie mu no, ɔsɛefoɔ bɛba ne so.Under pastoral review
22Ɔnnye nni sɛ ɔbɛsane afiri esum mu aba, na akofena retwɛn no.Under pastoral review
23Ɔkyinkyini hwehwɛ aduane, sɛ, Ɛwɔ he? ɔnim sɛ esum da no abɛn ne nsa.Under pastoral review
24Ɔhaw ne ahoyeraw bɛyɛ no hu; wɔbɛdi ne so nkonim, sɛ ɔhene a wasiesie ne ho ama ɔko.Under pastoral review
25Efisɛ ɔtene ne nsa tia Onyankopɔn, na ɔhyɛ ne ho den tia Otumfoɔ Panin.Under pastoral review
26Ɔtu mmirika kɔ ne so, ne kɔn so mpo, ne nkataboɔ a mu piw so:Under pastoral review
27Efisɛ ɔde ne sradeɛ kata n'anim, na ɔyɛ sradeɛ akuo wɔ ne mfe ho.Under pastoral review
28Na ɔte nkuro a ada mpan mu, ne adan a obiara ntena mu, a ɛrebɛyɛ esie.Under pastoral review
29Ɔrenyɛ ɔdefoɔ, na n'agyapadeɛ rentena hɔ, na ɔrentwe emu pɛyɛ mu wɔ asase so.Under pastoral review
30Ɔremfiri esum mu; ogyaframa bɛhye ne mman, na n'anom ahome so na ɔbɛkɔ.Under pastoral review
31Mma deɛ wɔadaadaa no no mfa ne ho nto ahuhudeɛ so: efisɛ ahuhudeɛ bɛyɛ n'akatua.Under pastoral review
32Ɛbɛba mu ansa na ne berɛ aduru, na ne mman renyɛ mono.Under pastoral review
33Ɔbɛporɔw ne bobe a ɛmmereɛ agu sɛ bobe dua, na wato ne nhwiren agu sɛ ngo dua.Under pastoral review
34Efisɛ nyaatwomfoɔ asafo bɛda mpan, na ogya bɛhye adanmudeɛ ntomadan.Under pastoral review
35Wɔnyinsɛn ɔhaw, na wɔwo ahuhudeɛ, na wɔn yafunu siesie nnaadaa.Under pastoral review