1 Then Alayapaz (Eliphaz) the thayamanay (temanite) inah (answer / respond),
2 “If someone ventures to dabar (word / matter) with you, will you be laah (grieved)? But who yakal (can) itzar (withhold) himself from malah (speaking)?
3 Behold, you have yasar (instructed) many, you have chazaq (strengthened) the rapah (weak) yadayam (hands).
4 Your malah (words) have supported him who was kashal (stumble / stagger), You have amatz (made) firm the karai (feeble) barakayam (knees).
5 But now it bawaa (bring) come to you, and you laah (faint). It touches you, and you are bahal (troubled).
6 Isn't your piety your kasalah (confidence)? Isn't the tham (integrity) of your darak (ways) your thaqawah (hope)?
7 “Zakar (remember), now, whoever abad (destroy / perish), being naqay (innocent)? Or ayapah (where) were the yashar (upright) kachad (cut) off?
8 According to what I raah (see / saw) seen, those who charash (plow) awan (iniquity), and zarai (sow) imal (trouble), qatzar (reap) the same.
9 By the nashamah (breathing thing) of Alawah () they abad (destroy / perish). By the rawach (spirit / wind) of his ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting) are they kalah (complete / finish).
10 The shaagah (roaring) of the aray (lion), and the qawal (sound / voice) of the fierce shachal (lion), the shanay (second) of the young kapayarayam (lions), are nathai (broken).
11 The old layash (lion) perishes for balay (lack) of tarap (prey). The cubs of the labayaa (lioness) are parad (scattered) abroad.
12 “Now a thing was ganab (secretly) brought to me. My azan (ear) laqach (take / seize) a whisper of it.
13 In thoughts from the chazayanawath (visions) of the layal (night), when tharadamah (deep) sleep napal (fall / be cast down) on anashayam (men),
14 Pachad (fear / dread) qaraa (called) on me, and raid (trembling), which made rab (all) my itzam (bones) pachad (fear / dread).
15 Then a rawach (spirit / wind) chalap (passed) before my panayam (face). The shairah (hair) of my bashar (flesh) samar (stood) up.
16 It imad (stood) still, but I couldn't nakar (discern) its maraah (appearance). A maraah (form) was before my iyan (eye). Damamah (silence), then I shamai (hearken / hear) a qawal (sound / voice), saying,
17 ‘Shall mortal anawash (man) be more tzadaq (righteous / just / fair) than Alawah ()? Shall a gabar (man) be more pure than his Maker?
18 Behold, he puts no aman (believe / have faith) in his ibad (servant). He shawam (place / establish / appoint) his malaak (angel / messenger of Yah) with error.
19 Ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting) much more, those who shakan (place) in bathay (houses) of chamar (clay), whose yasawad (foundation) is in the ipar (dust), who are dakaa (crushed) panayam (face) the ish (made)!
20 Between baqar (morning) and irab (evening) they are kathath (destroyed). They abad (destroy / perish) natzach (forever) without any shawam (place / establish / appoint) it.
21 Isn't their tent yathar (cord) plucked up within them? They mawath (death), and that without chakamah (wisdom).’