1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2. “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?Yet who can keep from speaking?
3. Behold, you have instructed many,and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,and you have made firm the feeble knees.
5. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;it touches you, and you are dismayed.
6. Is not your fear of God your confidence,and the integrity of your ways your hope?
7. “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished?Or where were the upright cut off?