1And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2If one ventures a word to you, will you be weary? But to refrain from words, who is able?
3Behold, you have instructed many, and weak hands you have strengthened.
4Your words have raised up the stumbling one, and the buckling knees you have made firm.
5For now it comes to you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
6Is not your fear your confidence, and your hope the integrity of your ways?
7Remember, please: who that was innocent ever perished? And where were the upright destroyed?
8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap it.
9From the breath (neshamah) of God they perish, and from the spirit (ruach) of his nostril they are consumed.
10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the sons of the lioness are scattered.
12And to me a word was stolen, and my ear took a whisper of it.
13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men (ish),
14dread befell me, and trembling, and it made the multitude of my bones dread.
15And a spirit (ruach) passes over my face; it makes the hair of my flesh (basar) bristle.
16It stands still, but I do not recognize its appearance; a form is before my eyes; silence, then I hear a voice:
17"Can a mortal man be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
18Behold, in his servants he does not trust, and his angels he charges with error;
19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust (aphar); they are crushed before the moth!
20From morning to evening they are shattered; without anyone regarding it, forever they perish.
21Is not their tent-cord pulled up within them? They die, and not in wisdom."