1. THEN ELIPHAZ the Temanite answered and said,
2. If we venture to converse with you, will you be offended? Yet who can restrain himself from speaking?
3. Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4. Your words have held firm him who was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.
5. But now it is come upon you, and you faint and are grieved; it touches you, and you are troubled and dismayed.
6. Is not your [reverent] fear of God your confidence and the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?
7. Think [earnestly], I beg of you: who, being innocent, ever perished? Or where were those upright and in right standing with God cut off?
8. As I myself have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble and mischief reap the same.
9. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are 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 and strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
12. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.