Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,

2 Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

3 For whereas thou hast instructed many, and hast strengthened the hands of the weak one,

4 and hast supported the failing with words, and hast imparted courage to feeble knees.

5 Yet now that pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.

6 Is not thy fear founded in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?

7 Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

8 Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

9 They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.