- But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said
- If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived
- Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands
- Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees
- But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed
- Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways
- Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed
- In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them
- perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit
- The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away
- The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered
- Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper
- In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep
- fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified
- And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up
- There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze
- Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker
- Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection
- How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth
- From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing
- But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom