1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2. If someone attempts a word with you, would you mind?How can anyone refrain from speaking?
3. Look, you have instructed many,and made firm their feeble hands.
4. Your words have upheld the stumbler;you have strengthened faltering knees.
5. But now that it comes to you, you are impatient;when it touches you, you are dismayed.
6. Is not your piety a source of confidence,and your integrity of life your hope?
7. Reflect now, what innocent person perishes?Where are the upright destroyed?
8. As I see it, those who plow mischiefand sow trouble will reap them.
9. By the breath of God they perish,and by the blast of his wrath they are consumed.
10. Though the lion roars, though the king of beasts cries out,yet the teeth of the young lions are broken;
11. The old lion perishes for lack of prey,and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12. A word was stealthily brought to me,my ear caught a whisper of it.
13. In my thoughts during visions of the night,when deep sleep falls on mortals,
14. Fear came upon me, and shuddering,that terrified me to the bone.
15. Then a spirit passed before me,and the hair of my body stood on end.