Is your reverence not your confidence,
Eliphaz asks whether Job's fear of God is not his confidence and his blameless ways his hope.
This verse presses Job to live by the very piety he once embodied.
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? 3Surely you have instructed many, 4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; 5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. 6Is your reverence not your confidence, 7Consider now, I plead: 8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity 9By the breath of God they perish, 10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, 11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, 12Now a word came to me secretly; 13In disquieting visions in the night, 14fear and trembling came over me 15Then a spirit glided past my face, 16It stood still, 17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, 18If God puts no trust in His servants, 19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, 20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; 21Are not their tent cords pulled up,