4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

4:2 If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

4:3 Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands.

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

4:5 But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.

4:6 Isn`t your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?

4:7 Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

4:8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

4:9 By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken.

4:11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.

4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

4:14 Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.

4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.

4:16 It stood still, but I couldn`t discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

4:17 `Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

4:18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

4:19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

4:20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.