1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

2 Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,

3 Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?

4 Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before *God.

5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.

6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.

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

8 Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God? And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?

9 What knowest thou that we know not? {what} understandest thou which is not in us?

10 Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.

11 Are the consolations of *God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?

12 Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?

13 That thou turnest thy spirit against *God, and lettest words go out of thy mouth?

14 What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:

16 How much less the abominable and corrupt, -man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!

17 I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;

18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;

19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

20 All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.

21 The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.

22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.

23 He wandereth abroad for bread, -where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a king ready for the battle.

25 For he hath stretched out his hand against *God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty:

26 He runneth against him, with {outstretched} neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;

27 For he hath covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon {his} flanks.

28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, in houses that no man inhabiteth, which are destined to become heaps.

29 He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend 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 him not trust in vanity: he is deceived, for vanity shall be his recompense;

32 It shall be complete before his day, and his branch shall not be green.

33 He shall shake off his unripe grapes as a vine, and shall cast his flower as an olive.

34 For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

1 Na ka whakautua e Eripata Temani; i mea ia,

2 He horihori kau koia te matauranga e whakapuakina e te tangata whakaaro, kia whakakiia e ia tona kopu ki te hau marangai?

3 Me korero ranei ia ko nga kupu kore hua hei ako, ko nga whaikorero ranei kahore nei e whai tikanga?

4 Ae, kua whakakorea atu na e koe te wehi, kei te pupuri mai koe i te inoi i te aroaro o te Atua.

5 Na kei te whakaakona tou mangai e tou kino, a kei te whiriwhiria e koe ko te arero o te hunga tinihanga.

6 Ehara i ahau, na tou mangai ano i hopu tou kino; ko ou ngutu ano hei whakaatu i tou he.

7 Ko koe ianei te tangata tuatahi kua whanau? He mea hanga ranei koe no mua atu i nga pukepuke?

8 Kua rongo ranei koe i to te Atua whakaaro puku? Kei te kaiponu ranei koe i te whakaaro ki a koe anake?

9 Ko te aha te mohiotia ana e koe, a kahore e mohiotia e matou? Ko tehea whakaaro ano hoki ou kahore nei i a matou?

10 Kei a matou nga upoko hina ratou tahi ko nga tino koroheke, kaumatua rawa ake i tou papa.

11 He iti rawa ranei mou nga whakamarie a te Atua, te kupu ngawari e hoatu ana ki a koe?

12 He aha koe i kahakina atu ai e tou ngakau? He aha hoki ou kanohi i kimokimo ai,

13 I tahuri ai tou wairua ki te whakahe i te Atua? i puaki ai ena kupu i tou mangai?

14 He aha te tangata, e ma ai ia? te whanau ranei a te wahine, e tika ai?

15 Nana, kahore ia e whakawhirinaki ki ana mea tapu; kahore hoki nga rangi e ma ki tana titiro.

16 Katahi ia te he rawa ko te mea whakarihariha, ko te mea poke, ko te tangata e inu nei i te kino ano he wai.

17 Maku e whakaatu ki a koe, whakarongo mai ki ahau; ko te mea kua kitea e ahau, maku e korero atu.

18 He mea korero mai na nga mohio, he whakarerenga iho na o ratou matua: kihai hoki i huna e ratou:

19 Ki a ratou nei anake te homaitanga o te whenua; kihai hoki te tangata ke i tika i waenganui i a ratou.

20 E whakamamae ana te tangata kino i ona ra katoa, ara i te maha o nga tau e haupu nei mo te kaitukino.

21 He reo whakawehi kei roto i ona taringa; i te wa whai rawa ka tae mai te kaipahua ki a ia:

22 Kahore ana whakaaetanga ake tera ia ka hoki ake i te pouri, e whanga ana ano hoki te hoari ki a ia.

23 E kopikopiko noa ana ia ki te taro mana, e mea ana: Kei hea ra? E mohio ana ia kua tata ki tona ringa te ra o te pouri.

24 Ko te ngakau mamae, me te tumatatenga, hei whakawehi i a ia; ka kaha ake raua i a ia, me te mea he kingi kua rite ana mea mo te whawhai.

25 Kua totoro nei ona ringa ki te whawhai ki te Atua, kua whakatoatoa nei i a ia ki te whawhai ki te Kaha Rawa;

26 Kua rere ki a ia me te kaki maro, me nga puku matotoru o ana whakangungu rakau.

27 Kua kopakina hoki tona mata e tona ngako, a kua tupu te ngako o tona hope.

28 Na i noho ia ki nga pa mahue, ki nga whare kahore i nohoia e te tangata, meake nei waiho hei puranga.

29 E kore ia e whai taonga, e kore ano ona rawa e mau, e kore ano hoki to ratou hua e taupe ki te whenua.

30 E kore ia e puta i te pouri, ona peka ka maroke i te mura, ka riro atu ano ia i te manawa o tona mangai.

31 Kei whakawhirinaki ia ki te mea teka noa, kei tinihanga ki a ia ano: no te mea ko te teka noa hei utu ki a ia.

32 E kore tona ra e taea, kua rite; e kore ano tona peka e whai rau.

33 Ka ruiruia e ia ana karepe kaiota ano ko te waina, a ka maka tana puawai me te mea ko te oriwa.

34 Ka pakoko hoki te whakaminenga o te hunga atuakore, ka pau hoki i te ahi nga teneti o nga utu whakapati.

35 He mahi nanakia te mea i hapu ki roto ki a ratou, whanau ake he teka noa; ko o ratou kopu ano hei hanga i te tinihanga.