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[1]Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
[2]If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
[3]Behold, thou hast taught many, and hast strengthened the weary hands.
[4]Thy words have confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weak knees.
[5]But now it is come upon thee, and thou art grieved: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
[6]Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy patience, and the uprightness of thy ways?
[7]Remember, I pray thee: who ever perished, being an innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?
[8]As I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
[9]With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
[10]The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the lion's whelps are broken.
[11]The lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
[12]But a thing was brought to me secretly, and mine ear hath received a little thereof.
[13]In the thoughts of the visions of the night, when sleep falleth on men,
[14]Fear came upon me, and dread which made all my bones to tremble.
[15]And the wind passed before me, and made the hairs of my flesh to stand up.
[16]Then stood one, and I knew not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voice, saying,
[17]Shall man be more just than God? Or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
[18]Behold, he found no steadfastness in his servants, and laid folly upon his angels.
[19]How much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shall be destroyed before the moth?
[20]They be destroyed from the morning unto the evening: they perish forever, without regard.
[21]Doth not their dignity go away with them? Do they not die, and that without wisdom?
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