Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?

3 Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.

4 Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling.

5 But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

6 Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?

7 Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?

8 In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.

9 They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils.