But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

"Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?