1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2. If someone attempts a word with you, would you mind?How can anyone refrain from speaking?
3. Look, you have instructed many,and made firm their feeble hands.
4. Your words have upheld the stumbler;you have strengthened faltering knees.
5. But now that it comes to you, you are impatient;when it touches you, you are dismayed.
6. Is not your piety a source of confidence,and your integrity of life your hope?
7. Reflect now, what innocent person perishes?Where are the upright destroyed?
8. As I see it, those who plow mischiefand sow trouble will reap them.