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