[1] And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says: [2] “Has one tried a word with you? You are weary! And who is able to keep in words? [3] Behold, you have instructed many, || And feeble hands you make strong. [4] Your words raise up the stumbling one, || And you strengthen bowing knees. [5] But now, it comes to you, || And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled. [6] Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways? [7] Now remember, || Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off? [8] As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, || And sowers of misery, reap it! [9] From the breath of God they perish, || And from the spirit of His anger [are] consumed. [10] The roaring of a lion, || And the voice of a fierce lion, || And teeth of young lions have been broken. [11] An old lion is perishing without prey, || And the whelps of the lioness separate. [12] And a thing is secretly brought to me, || And my ear receives a little of it. [13] In thoughts from visions of the night, || In the falling of deep sleep on men, [14] Fear has met me, and trembling, || And the multitude of my bones caused to fear. [15] And a spirit passes before my face, || The hair of my flesh stands up; [16] It stands, and I do not discern its aspect, || A likeness [is] before my eyes, || Silence! And I hear a voice: [17] Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a man cleaner than his Maker? [18] Behold, He puts no credence in His servants, || Nor sets praise in His messengers. [19] Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, || They bruise them before a moth). [20] From morning to evening are beaten down, || Without any regarding, they perish forever. [21] Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”
