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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz, a native of Teman, responded:

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 If one tries to answer you, will you be annoyed? But who can hold words back?

2 “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?

3 Look, you've instructed many and given strength to drooping hands.

3 Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.

4 Your words have raised up the falling; you've steadied failing knees.

4 Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.

5 But now it comes to you, and you are dismayed; it has struck you, and you are frightened.

5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.

6 Isn't your religion the source of your confidence; the integrity of your conduct, the source of your hope?

6 Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?

7 Think! What innocent person has ever perished? When have those who do the right thing been destroyed?

7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?

8 As I've observed, those who plow sin and sow trouble will harvest it.

8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.

9 When God breathes deeply, they perish; by a breath of his nostril they are annihilated.

9 At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.

10 The roar of a lion and snarl of the king of beasts— yet the teeth of lions are shattered;

10 The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.

11 the lion perishes without prey, and its cubs are scattered.

11 The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

12 But a word sneaked up on me; my ears caught a hint of it.

12 “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.

13 In profound thoughts, visions of night, when deep sleep falls on people,

13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,

14 fear and dread struck me; all of my bones shook.

14 fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.

15 A breeze swept by my face; the hair of my skin bristled.

15 A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.

16 It stopped. I didn't recognize its visible form, although a figure was in front of my eyes. Silence! Then I heard a voice:

16 It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:

17 "Can a human be more righteous than God, a person purer than their maker?"

17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?

18 If he doesn't trust his servants and levels a charge against his messengers,

18 If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,

19 how much less those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in dust, and who are crushed like a moth?

19 how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!

20 They are smashed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone knowing.

20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.

21 Isn't their tent cord pulled up? They die without wisdom.

21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’