Job 4:1-11

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job:

2“Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?

3“In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak.

4Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees.

5But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you.

6Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?

7“Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed?

8My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.

9A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger.

10The lion roars and the wildcat snarls, but the teeth of strong lions will be broken.

11The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.