1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded and said:
2. “If one attempts a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
3. Behold, you have instructed many; you have strengthened weak hands.
4. Your words have supported those who stumbled, and strengthened buckling knees.
5. Yet now it has come to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6. Is not your piety your confidence, the integrity of your ways your hope?
7. Reflect now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were the upright destroyed?
8. As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow harm, reap them.
9. By the breath of God they perish; by the blast of His anger they vanish.
10. The lion may roar and the cub growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken.
11. The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey and the lioness’ cubs are scattered.