Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

2 “If we dare to converse with you, will you be impatient [or offended]? But who can restrain himself from speaking?

3 “Behold, you have admonished and instructed many, And you have strengthened weak hands.

4 “Your words have helped the one who was stumbling to stand, And you have strengthened feeble knees.

5 “But now adversity comes upon you, and you are impatient and intolerant; It touches you, and you are horrified.

6 “Is not your fear of God your confidence, And [is not] the integrity and uprightness of your ways your hope?

7 “Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished? Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?

8 “As I have seen, those who plow wickedness And those who sow trouble and harm harvest it.

9 “By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they are consumed.