But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Isn’t your piety your confidence,
and the integrity of your life your hope?

In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest been destroyed?

They perish at a single blast from God
and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.

The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl,
but the fangs of young lions are broken.

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,
when deep sleep descends on men,

The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

fear and trembling came over me
and made all my bones shake.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

“Can a person be more righteous than God,
or a man more pure than his Maker?”

A word was brought to me in secret;
my ears caught a whisper of it.

If God puts no trust in His servants
and He charges His angels with foolishness,

how much more those who dwell in clay houses,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth!

A wind passed by me,
and I shuddered with fear.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;
they perish forever while no one notices.

Are their tent cords not pulled up?
They die without wisdom.

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Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling
and braced the knees that were buckling.

A figure stood there,
but I could not recognize its appearance;
a form loomed before my eyes.
I heard a quiet voice:

Indeed, you have instructed many
and have strengthened weak hands.

Should anyone try to speak with you
when you are exhausted?
Yet who can keep from speaking?