FIRST SERIES OF SPEECHES

ELIPHAZ SPEAKS

4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 Should anyone try to speak with you

when you are exhausted?

Yet who can keep from speaking?

3 Indeed, you have instructed many

and have strengthenedg weak hands.

4 Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling

and braced the knees that were buckling.h

5 But now that this has happened to you,

you have become exhausted.

It strikesi you, and you are dismayed.