1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
2. “If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient?But who can refrain from speaking?
3. Look, you have instructed many;you have strengthened feeble hands.
4. Your words have supported those who stumbled,and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.
5. But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged;it strikes you, and you are terrified.