Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2 If someone attempts a word with you, would you mind? How can anyone refrain from speaking?

3 Look, you have instructed many, and made firm their feeble hands.

4 Your words have upheld the stumbler; you have strengthened faltering knees.

5 But now that it comes to you, you are impatient; when it touches you, you are dismayed.

6 Is not your piety a source of confidence, and your integrity of life your hope?

7 Reflect now, what innocent person perishes? Where are the upright destroyed?

8 As I see it, those who plow mischief and sow trouble will reap them.

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