1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2. If we venture to converse with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
3. Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4. Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.
5. But now it is come upon you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.
6. Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?
7. Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
8. Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11. The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the strong lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
12. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.