1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2. “If someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? But who can refrain from speaking?
3. Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.
4. Your words have raised up the one who stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way.
5. But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified.
6. Is not your fear in God your confidence? Is not your hope even the integrity of your ways?
7. “Think now, who has perished who is innocent? Or where are the upright destroyed?
8. Just as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.
9. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they come to an end.
10. The roar of the lion and the voice of a lion in its prime, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.