1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 ‘If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?But who can keep from speaking?
3 Think how you have instructed many,how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled;you have strengthened faltering knees.
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Should not your piety be your confidenceand your blameless ways your hope?
7 ‘Consider now: who, being innocent, has ever perished?Where were the upright ever destroyed?