¹ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

² Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD to the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

³ Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send my anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thy abominations.

⁴ And my eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

⁵ Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only evil, behold, is come.

⁶ An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

⁷ The morning is come upon thee, O thou that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of trouble is near, and not the sounding again of the mountains.

⁸ Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish my anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thy abominations.

⁹ And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thy abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.

¹⁰ Behold the day, behold, it is come; the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

¹¹ Violence hath risen into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.

¹² The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

¹³ For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is concerning the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

¹⁴ They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof:

¹⁵ The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

¹⁶ But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

¹⁷ All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

¹⁸ They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

¹⁹ They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels because it is the stumbling-block of their iniquity.

²⁰ As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

²¹ And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

²² My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

²³ Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

²⁴ Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be defiled.

²⁵ Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

²⁶ Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

²⁷ The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

⁴³ Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things; behold therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thy abominations.

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows 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 to the battle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

³² It shall be accomplished before his time. 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 tree.

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

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