T<\/span>hen Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,<\/span><\/p>\n 2<\/sup>If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.<\/span> <\/p>\n