Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:

2 If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?

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

4 Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees.

5 But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed.

6 Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?

7 Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?

8 In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,

9 perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.