¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said unto him, ² "If we begin to commune with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent; but who can withhold himself from speaking? ³ Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands. ⁴ Thy words have set up those that were fallen, thou hast refreshed the weak knees. ⁵ But now that the plague is come upon thee, thou shrinkest away: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint hearted. ⁶ Where is now thy fear of God, thy steadfastness, thy patience, and the perfectness of thy ways? ⁷ "Consider, I pray thee: who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed? ⁸ For, as I have proved by experience, they that plow iniquity and sow wretchedness, reap the same. ⁹ With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his anger are they consumed away. ¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the lion's whelps are broken. ¹¹ The lion perisheth, for lack of prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

¹² "And unto me came the word secretly, and mine ear hath received a little thereof. ¹³ In the fantasies and thoughts of the visions of the night, when sleep cometh on men: ¹⁴ Fear came upon me, and dread, and made all my bones to shake. ¹⁵ And when the wind passed by before my presence it made the hairs of my flesh stand up. ¹⁶ He stood there, and I knew not his face. An image there was, before mine eyes, and in the stillness heard I a voice. ¹⁷ 'Shall man be more just than God? Or shall man be purer than his maker? ¹⁸ Behold, he hath found unfaithfulness among his own servants, and proud disobedience among his angels. ¹⁹ How much more then shall they that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth? ²⁰ They shall be destroyed from morning unto the evening: yea, they shall perish everlastingly, and no man think thereon. ²¹ Is not their dignity taken away with them? They shall die - and not in wisdom.'