Eliphaz says that he learned a secret

12 “I heard a message that someone came

and whispered to me.

13 He spoke to me at night when I was having a bad dream that disturbed/frightened me

while I was fast asleep.

14 It caused me to be afraid and tremble;

it caused all my bones to shake.

15 A ghost glided past my face

and caused the hair on on the back of my neck to stand straight up.

16 It stopped, but I could not see what form it had.

But I could sense that there was some being in front of me,

and it said in a quiet voice,

17 ‘◄Does God consider anyone to be righteous?/No human beings can be righteous in God’s sight!► [RHQ]

◄Their creator cannot consider them to be pure./Can their creator consider them to be pure?► [RHQ]

18 God cannot be sure that his own angels will always do what is right;

he declares that some of them have done what is wrong.

19 So he certainly cannot trust human beings who were made from dust and clay,

who are crushed as easily as moths are crushed!

20 People are sometimes well in the morning, but in the evening they are dead.

They are gone forever and do not even know it (OR, and no one pays any attention to it).

21 They are like [MET] tents that collapse suddenly:

They die suddenly before they become wise.’ ”