1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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Job 42:7, Job 2:11, Job 42:7, Job 2:11, Job 22:1

2"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

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Job 6:26, Job 6:26, Hosea 12:1, Job 8:2, Hosea 12:1

3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

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Colossians 4:6, Malachi 3:13, Malachi 3:15, Job 26:1, Job 26:3

4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

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Romans 3:31, Romans 3:31, Psalms 36:1, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 119:126

5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

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Jeremiah 9:3, Jeremiah 9:5, Psalms 50:19, Psalms 50:20, James 3:5

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

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Luke 19:22, Luke 19:22, Matthew 12:37, Matthew 12:37, Job 9:20

7"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?

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Psalms 90:2, Psalms 90:2, Job 38:4, Job 38:41, Proverbs 8:22

8Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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Romans 11:34, Romans 11:34, Jeremiah 23:18, Jeremiah 23:18, Job 12:2

9What do you know, that we do not know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

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Job 13:2, Job 13:2, 2 Corinthians 11:5, 2 Corinthians 11:5, 2 Corinthians 11:21

10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

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Job 32:6, Job 32:7, Job 32:6, Job 32:7, Deuteronomy 32:7

11Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

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2 Corinthians 7:6, Job 11:13, Job 11:19, Job 5:8, Job 5:26

12Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

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Proverbs 6:13, Job 17:2, James 1:14, James 1:15, Mark 7:21

13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

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Job 15:25, Job 15:27, James 3:2, James 3:6, Job 15:25

14What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

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Ecclesiastes 7:20, Job 14:4, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Job 14:4, Proverbs 20:9

15Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones. Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;

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Job 4:18, Job 25:5, Job 4:18, Job 25:5, Job 5:1

16how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

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Job 34:7, Proverbs 19:28, Job 34:7, Proverbs 19:28, Romans 3:9

17"I will show you, listen to me; that which I have seen I will declare:

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Job 34:2, Job 5:27, Job 13:5, Job 13:6, Job 36:2

18(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

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Job 8:8, Job 8:8, Isaiah 38:19, Job 15:10, Psalms 71:18

19to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):

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Joel 3:17, Joel 3:17, Genesis 10:32, Deuteronomy 32:8, Genesis 10:25

20the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

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Job 27:13, James 5:1, James 5:6, Job 27:13, James 5:1

21A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.

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Job 18:11, Job 18:11, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Leviticus 26:36

22He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

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Job 20:24, Job 20:25, Job 9:16, Isaiah 8:21, Isaiah 8:22

23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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Psalms 109:10, Psalms 59:15, Psalms 109:10, Psalms 59:15, Job 18:12

24Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

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Proverbs 6:11, Isaiah 13:3, Job 6:2, Job 6:4, Proverbs 24:34

25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

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Psalms 52:7, Job 36:9, Daniel 5:23, Psalms 73:9, Malachi 3:13

26he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers;

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2 Chronicles 32:13, 2 Chronicles 32:17, Genesis 49:8, Job 16:12, Psalms 18:40

27because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

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Psalms 17:10, Psalms 17:10, Isaiah 6:10, Psalms 73:7, Jeremiah 5:28

28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

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Job 3:14, Job 3:14, Micah 7:18, Jeremiah 51:37, Job 18:15

29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

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Job 27:16, Job 27:17, Job 27:16, Job 27:17, James 1:11

30He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

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Job 4:9, Job 4:9, Job 20:26, Job 15:22, Job 20:26

31Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

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Isaiah 59:4, Isaiah 59:4, Psalms 62:10, Psalms 62:10, Job 12:16

32It shall be accomplished before his time. His branch shall not be green.

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Ecclesiastes 7:17, Ecclesiastes 7:17, Psalms 55:23, Psalms 55:23, Job 22:16

33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

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Revelation 6:13, Deuteronomy 28:39, Deuteronomy 28:40, Isaiah 33:9, Revelation 6:13

34For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

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Job 8:13, Job 8:13, Job 8:22, Job 27:8, Micah 7:2

35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

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Psalms 7:14, Psalms 7:14, Hosea 10:13, Hosea 10:13, Isaiah 59:4