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