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[1]Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
[2]If we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?
[3]Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
[4]Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
[5]But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
[6]Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
[7]Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;
[8]Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
[9]By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
[10]The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
[11]The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
[12]Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it.
[13]In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
[14]Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
[15]Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
[16]It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and 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 put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
[19]How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
[20]They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
[21]Doth not their excellence which is in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.
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