Job 4

CAB^{(i) 1} Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ² Have you been often spoken to in distress? But who shall endure the force of your words? ³ For seeing you have instructed many, and have strengthened the hands of the weak one, ⁴ and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees. ⁵ Yet now that pain has come upon you, and touched you, you are troubled. ⁶ Is not your fear founded in folly, your hope also, and the mischief of your way? ⁷ Remember then who has perished, being pure? Or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed? ⁸ Accordingly, as I have seen men plowing 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. ¹⁰ The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched. ¹¹ The old lion has perished for want of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another. ¹² But if there had been any truth in your words, none of these evils would have befallen you. Shall not my ear receive excellent revelations from Him? ¹³ But as when terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night, ¹⁴ horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake. ¹⁵ And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered. ¹⁶ I arose and perceived it not. I looked, and there was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, saying, ¹⁷ What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? Or a man be blameless in regard to his works? ¹⁸ Since he trusts not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels. ¹⁹ But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, He smites them like a moth. ²⁰ And from the morning to evening they no longer exist — they have perished, because they cannot help themselves. ²¹ For He blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.