Job 4:1-9 ▼

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

4 Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.

5 But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

6 Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

7 “Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.

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