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.