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.