¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ²“If someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? But who can refrain from speaking? ³Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. ⁴Your words have raised up the one who stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way. ⁵But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified. ⁶Is not your fear in God your confidence? Is not your hope even the integrity of your ways? ⁷“⌞Think⌟ now, who has perished who is innocent? Or where are the upright destroyed? ⁸Just as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it. ⁹By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they come to an end. ¹⁰The roar of the lion and the voice of a lion in its prime, and the teeth of the young lions are broken. ¹¹The lion is perishing without prey, and the lion’s whelps are scattered. ¹²“And a word came stealing to me, and my ear received the whisper from it. ¹³Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at the falling of deep sleep on men, ¹⁴dread met me, and trembling, and it made many of my bones shake. ¹⁵And a spirit glided before my face; the hair of my flesh bristled. ¹⁶It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form was ⌞before⌟ my eyes; there was a hush, and I heard a voice: ¹⁷‘Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker? ¹⁸Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error. ¹⁹How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust? They are crushed like a moth. ²⁰⌞Between morning and evening⌟ they are destroyed; without anyone regarding it they perish forever. ²¹Is not their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, but not in wisdom.’