Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

2 If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?

3 Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.

4 Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

5 But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.

6 Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

7 Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

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

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