Job 4 (King James Version)

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said , 2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved ? but who can withhold himself from speaking? 3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. 4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling , and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest ; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled . 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? 7 Remember , I pray thee, who ever perished , being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off ? 8 Even as I have seen , they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. 9 By the blast of God they perish , and by the breath^a of his nostrils are they consumed . 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken . 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad . 12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, 14 Fear came^b upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake . 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up : 16 It stood still , but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker ? 18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? 20 They are destroyed^c from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. 21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away ? they die , even without wisdom.