4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 4:2 "If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient Yet who can keep from speaking 4:3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. 4:4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. 4:5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. 4:6 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope 4:7 "Remember: who that was innocent ever perished Or where were the upright cut off 4:8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. 4:9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. 4:10 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken. 4:11 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. 4:12 "Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it. 4:13 Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 4:14 dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. 4:15 A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. 4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice: 4:17 'Can mortal man be in the right before God Can a man be pure before his Maker 4:18 Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; 4:19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. 4:20 Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 4:21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom'