1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
2. “If one attempts a word with you, will you be impatient?But who can keep from speaking?
3. Surely you have instructed many,and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4. Your words have raised up him who was falling,and you have fortified the feeble knees.
5. But now it comes upon you, and you are weary;it reaches even you, and you are terrified.
6. Is not your reverence your confidence?And the integrity of your ways your hope?
7. “Remember now, who being innocent ever perished?Or where were the upright ever wiped out?
8. Just like I have seen, those who plow iniquityand sow trouble, reap the same.
9. By the breath of God they perish,and by the blast of His anger they are destroyed.
10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion,and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11. The old lion perishes for lack of prey,and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12. “Now a word was brought to me secretly,and my ear received a whisper of it.
13. Amid disquieting thoughts from night visions,when deep sleep falls on mortals,