December 09, 2002 Copyright © by United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops - Then spoke Eliphaz the Temanite, who said: -
If someone attempts a word with you, will you mind? For how can
anyone refrain from speaking? - Behold, you have instructed
many, and have made firm their feeble hands. - Your words have
upheld the stumbler; you have strengthened his faltering knees.
- But now that it comes to you, you are impatient; when it
touches yourself, you are dismayed. - Is not your piety a source
of confidence, and your integrity of life your hope? - Reflect
now, what innocent person perishes? Since when are the upright
destroyed? - As I see it, those who plow for mischief and sow
trouble, reap the same. - By the breath of God they perish, and
by the blast of his wrath they are consumed. - 1 Though the lion
roars, though the king of beasts cries out, yet the teeth of the
young lions are broken; - The old lion perishes for lack of
prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. - 2 For a word
was stealthily bro