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Job 4

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 Hath one tried a word with thee? -- Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?

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

3 Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.

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

4 The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.

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

5 But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.

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

6 Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope -- the perfection of thy ways?

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

7 Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

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

8 As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

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

9 From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.

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

10 The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

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

11 An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.

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

12 And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it.

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

13 In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,

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

14 Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.

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

15 And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;

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

16 It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude [is] over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear:

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

17 `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

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

18 Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'

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

19 Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before 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 From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.

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

21 Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!

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

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