| 1 | But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said: |
| 2 | If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived? |
| 3 | Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands. |
| 4 | Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees. |
| 5 | But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed. |
| 6 | Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways? |
| 7 | Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed? |
| 8 | In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them, |
| 9 | perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit. |
| 10 | The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away. |
| 11 | The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered. |
| 12 | Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper. |
| 13 | In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep, |
| 14 | fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified. |
| 15 | And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up. |
| 16 | There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze. |
| 17 | Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker? |
| 18 | Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection. |
| 19 | How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth? |
| 20 | From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing. |
| 21 | But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom. |
