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. 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.’