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?