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Job 4

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?

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

3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands;

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

4 Thy words have upholden him that was stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees:

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

5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou grievest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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

6 Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

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

7 Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?

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

8 Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.

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

9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils are they consumed.

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

10 The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;

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

11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

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

12 Now to me a word was secretly brought, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.

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

13 In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men: --

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

14 Fear came on me, and trembling, and made all my bones to shake;

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

15 And a spirit passed before my face -- the hair of my flesh stood up --

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

16 It stood still; I could not discern the appearance thereof: a form was before mine eyes; I heard a slight murmur and 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 Shall [mortal] man be more just than God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

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

18 Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:

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

19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the 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 they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.

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

21 Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

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

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