Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 THEN Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

2 If I venture to speak with you, will you be wearied? But who can restrain himself from speaking with you?

3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

4 Your words have upheld the weak, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

5 But now because misfortune has come upon you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are terrified.

6 Behold, your fear is to be blamed, and your trust in the integrity of your way.

7 Remember, I pray you, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright ever put to shame?

8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.

9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.