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?