1. THEN ELIPHAZ the Temanite answered [Job],
2. Should a wise man utter such windy knowledge [as we have just heard] and fill himself with the east wind [of withering, parching, and violent accusations]?
3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk? Or with speeches with which he can do no good?
4. Indeed, you are doing away with [reverential] fear, and you are hindering and diminishing meditation and devotion before God.
5. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.