1 And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,2 If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?3 Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;4 He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.5 But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?7 Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.11 The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.12 A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears.13 In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,14 Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;15 And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:16 Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, saying:17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?18 Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

1 Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit : 2 [Si cperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies ;sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit ?3 Ecce docuisti multos,et manus lassas roborasti ;4 vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui,et genua trementia confortasti.5 Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti ;tetigit te, et conturbatus es.6 Ubi est timor tuus, fortitudo tua,patientia tua, et perfectio viarum tuarum ?7 Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit ?aut quando recti deleti sunt ?8 Quin potius vidi eos qui operantur iniquitatem,et seminant dolores, et metunt eos,9 flante Deo perisse,et spiritu ir ejus esse consumptos.10 Rugitus leonis, et vox len,et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt.11 Tigris periit, eo quod non haberet prdam,et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.12 Porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum,et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri ejus.13 In horrore visionis nocturn,quando solet sopor occupare homines,14 pavor tenuit me, et tremor,et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt ;15 et cum spiritus, me prsente, transiret,inhorruerunt pili carnis me.16 Stetit quidam, cujus non agnoscebam vultum,imago coram oculis meis,et vocem quasi aur lenis audivi.17 Numquid homo, Dei comparatione, justificabitur ?aut factore suo purior erit vir ?18 Ecce qui serviunt ei, non sunt stabiles,et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem ;19 quanto magis hi qui habitant domos luteas,qui terrenum habent fundamentum,consumentur velut a tinea ?20 De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur ;et quia nullus intelligit, in ternum peribunt.21 Qui autem reliqui fuerint, auferentur ex eis ;morientur, et non in sapientia.]