1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2. “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
3. Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4. Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
5. But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6. Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
7. “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?