Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 Then Eliphaz from Teman replied [to Job],

2 |If someone tries to talk to you, will you become impatient? But who can keep from talking?

3 Certainly, you have instructed many people: When hands were weak, you made them strong.

4 When someone stumbled, you lifted him up with your words. When knees were weak, you gave them strength.

5 But trouble comes to you, and you're impatient. It touches you, and you panic.

6 Doesn't your fear of God give you confidence and your lifetime of integrity give you hope?

7 |Now think about this: Which innocent person [ever] died [an untimely death]? Find me a decent person who has been destroyed.

8 Whenever I saw those who plowed wickedness and planted misery, they gathered its harvest.

9 God destroys them with his breath and kills them with a blast of his anger.