- 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
- 2. "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
- 3. Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
- 4. Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
- 5. But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
- 6. Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?
- 7. "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
- 8. According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
- 9. By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
- 10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
- 11. The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
- 12. "Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
- 13. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
- 14. fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
- 15. Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
- 16. It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
- 17. 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
- 18. Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
- 19. How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
- 20. Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
- 21. Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
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