The Koine Bible

Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and says:

If one should speak much to you, will it be in weariness? But who will bear the strength of your words?

For you have instructed many, and you have strengthened feeble hands.

You strengthened those who were weak with words, and you put courage around the knees that were failing.

But now distress has come upon you, and it has touched you, and you were hastened.

Is not your fear in folly, and your hope and the innocence of your way?

Remember then who, being pure, ever perished, or when did the truthful perish utterly with root?

According as I have seen those who plow iniquities, and those who sow them will reap pains for themselves

By the command of the Lord they will perish, and by the breath of his anger they will be destroyed.

The strength of a lion, but the voice of a lioness; but the exultation of dragons was extinguished.

The ant-lion perished because it had no prey, and the lion’s cubs left one another.

But if there had been any true word in your words, none of these evils would have met you. Will my ear not receive something extraordinary from him?

Fears also and a nocturnal sound, fear falling upon men

Fear and trembling met me, and it greatly shook my bones.

And a spirit came over my face; and the hairs of my flesh bristled.

I stood up, and I did not recognize; I saw, and there was no form before my eyes, but only a breeze and a voice I was hearing

For what mortal will be clean before the Lord, or man blameless from his works?

If he does not trust in his servants, and in his angels he thought something crooked,

but those dwelling in clay houses, from which also we ourselves are from the same clay, he struck them like a moth

And from morning until evening they are no longer, because they are unable to help themselves, they perished

For he breathed upon them, and they dried up; they perished because they had not wisdom.