1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2. Should anyone try to speak with youwhen you are exhausted?Yet who can keep from speaking?
3. Indeed, you have instructed manyand have strengthened weak hands.
4. Your words have steadied the one who was stumblingand braced the knees that were buckling.
5. But now that this has happened to you,you have become exhausted.It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6. Isn’t your piety your confidence,and the integrity of your life your hope?
7. Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?Where have the honest been destroyed?
8. In my experience, those who plow injusticeand those who sow trouble reap the same.
9. They perish at a single blast from Godand come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.
10. The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl,but the fangs of young lions are broken.
11. The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12. A word was brought to me in secret;my ears caught a whisper of it.