| 1 | Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, |
| 2 | 'If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? |
| 3 | Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands. |
| 4 | Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees. |
| 5 | But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled. |
| 6 | Isn't your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope? |
| 7 | 'Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? |
| 8 | According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same. |
| 9 | By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed. |
| 10 | The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
| 11 | The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad. |
| 12 | 'Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it. |
| 13 | In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, |
| 14 | Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake. |
| 15 | Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up. |
| 16 | It stood still, but I couldn't discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, |
| 17 | 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? |
| 18 | Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. |
| 19 | How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! |
| 20 | Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. |
| 21 | Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.' |