¹ And Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

² Shall one try a word with you, you who are weary? But who can hold back with words?

³ Behold, you have instructed many, and you have made the weak hands strong.

⁴ Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made strong the feeble knees.

⁵ But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

⁶ Is not your reverence your hope? Is not your hope the uprightness of your ways?

⁷ Remember, please, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?

⁸ As I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

⁹ By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils they are destroyed.

¹⁰ The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

¹¹ The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the strong lion's cubs are scattered abroad.

¹² And a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little of it.

¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

¹⁴ fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

¹⁵ And a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not tell the form of it. An image was before my eyes; silence; then I heard a voice,

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, and His angels He charges with folly!

¹⁹ How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

²⁰ They are destroyed from morning till evening; they perish forever without anyone caring.

²¹ Is not their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, but not with wisdom.