4 Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,

² “If we try to commune with you, will you grow weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

³ “Behold, you have taught many, and have strengthened weary hands.

⁴ “Your words have upheld him who was falling. And you have strengthened weak knees.

⁵ “But now it has come upon you, and you grow weary. It touches you, and you are troubled.

⁶ “Is not this your fear, your confidence, your patience and uprightness of your ways?

⁷ “Please remember, whoever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright destroyed?

⁸ “As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

⁹ “With the blast of God they perish. And with the breath of His Nostrils are they consumed.

¹⁰ “The roaring of the Lion, and the voice of the Lioness, and the teeth of the Lion’s whelps are broken.

¹¹ “The Lion perishes for lack of prey. And the Lion’s whelps are scattered.

¹² “But a thing was brought to me secretly. And my ear has received a little of it.

¹³ “In the thoughts of the visions of the night, when sleep falls on men,

¹⁴ “fear came upon me, and dread, which made all my bones tremble.

¹⁵ “And the wind passed before me, and made the hairs of my flesh stand up.

¹⁶ “Then, one stood. And I did not know his face, an image before my eyes. In silence, I heard a voice,

¹⁷ “‘Shall man be more just than God? Or shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

¹⁸ ‘Behold, he found no steadfastness in his servants, and laid folly upon his angels.

¹⁹ ‘How much more in those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shall be destroyed before the moth?

²⁰ ‘They are destroyed from the morning to the evening. They perish forever, without regard.

²¹ ‘Does not their excellence go away with them? Do they not die without wisdom?’”