1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,⇆ compare2If we attempt to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?⇆ compare3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.⇆ compare4Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.⇆ compare5But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.⇆ compare6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?⇆ compare7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?⇆ compare8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.⇆ compare9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.⇆ compare10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.⇆ compare11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.⇆ compare12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.⇆ compare13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,⇆ compare14Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.⇆ compare15Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:⇆ compare16It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,⇆ compare17Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?⇆ compare18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:⇆ compare19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?⇆ compare20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish forever without any regarding it.⇆ compare21Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.⇆ compare