1. Then Eliphaz, a native of Teman, responded:
2. If one tries to answer you, will you be annoyed?But who can hold words back?
3. Look, you’ve instructed manyand given strength to drooping hands.
4. Your words have raised up the falling;you’ve steadied failing knees.
5. But now it comes to you, and you are dismayed;it has struck you, and you are frightened.
6. Isn’t your religion the source of your confidence;the integrity of your conduct, the source of your hope?
7. Think! What innocent person has ever perished?When have those who do the right thing been destroyed?
8. As I’ve observed, those who plow sinand sow trouble will harvest it.
9. When God breathes deeply, they perish;by a breath of his nostril they are annihilated.
10. The roar of a lion and snarl of the king of beasts—yet the teeth of lions are shattered;
11. the lion perishes without prey,and its cubs are scattered.