Eliphaz recounts tradition

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

15Look, he puts no trust even in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his eyes.

16how much less a man who is detestable and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water!

17I will tell you; listen to me. What I have seen, I will recount—

18what wise men declare, and have not hidden from their fathers—

19To them alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.