1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said, 2If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? 3Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands. 4Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees. 5But now it comes to thee, and thou faint. It touches thee, and thou are troubled. 6Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope? 7Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? 8According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same. 9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. 10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad. 12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it. 13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 14fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. 15Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. 16It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance of it. A form was before my eyes. [There was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying], 17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker? 18Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly. 19How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! 20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.