1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?
3Behold, thou hast instructed many,
4Thy words have upholden him that was falling,
5But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest;
6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence,
7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?
8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity,
9By the blast of God they perish,
10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion,
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey,
12Now a thing was secretly brought to me,
13In thoughts from the visions of the night,
14Fear came upon me, and trembling,
15Then a spirit passed before my face;
16It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof:
17Shall mortal man be more just than God?
18Behold, he put no trust in his servants;
19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay,
20They are destroyed from morning to evening:
21Doth not their excellency which is in them go away?