1 Eliphaz of Teman spoke a second time:
2 windbag, belching hot air?
3 babbling baloney?
4 turn spiritual conversation into empty gossip.
5 You chose an education in fraud.
6 It's nothing I've said—you've incriminated yourself!
7 these things? Have you been around as long as the hills?
8 Do you think you're the only one who knows anything?
9 What insights do you have that we've missed?
10 old folks who've been around a lot longer than you.
11 spoken so gently and tenderly?
12 lashing out and spitting fire,
13 by letting words like this come out of your mouth?
14 in God's sight, for anyone born of a human mother to get it all together?
15 He sees the flaws in the very heavens themselves,
16 who lap up evil like water?
17 I'm letting you in on my views;
18 holding nothing back from what they were taught
19 when they had this land all to themselves:
20 nothing but trouble, and the longer they live, the worse it gets.
21 Just when they think they have it made, disaster strikes.
22 they're on the list of people for whom things always turn out for the worst.
23 never knowing where the next meal is coming from— every day is doomsday!
24 always with their backs up against the wall
25 defying God Almighty to his face,
26 always on the defensive.
27 trim and fit and youthful,
28 sleeping in a hovel not fit for a dog, a ramshackle shack.
29 never amount to a hill of beans.
30 They'll end up shriveled weeds, brought down by a puff of God's breath.
31 gets lies for interest,
32 Some investment!
33 like buds sheared off before they bloom.
34 a life built on bribes goes up in smoke.
35 Their lives are wombs for breeding deceit."
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