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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 "[If] someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? 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 Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.

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

4 Your words have raised up [the one who] stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way.

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

5 But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified.

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

6 [Is] not your fear [in God] your confidence? [Is not] your hope even the integrity of your ways?

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

7 "{Think} now, who has perished [who is] innocent? Or where [are] the upright destroyed?

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

8 [Just] as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.

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 anger they come to an end.

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 a lion in its prime, 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] lion is perishing without prey, and [the] lion's whelps are scattered.

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

12 "And a word came stealing to me, and my ear received [the] whisper from it.

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

13 Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at [the] falling of deep sleep on men,

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

14 dread met me, and trembling, and it made many of my bones shake.

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

15 And a spirit glided before my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.

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

16 It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form [was] {before} my eyes; [there was] a hush, and 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 being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?

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

18 Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error.

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

19 How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They 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 {Between morning and evening} they are destroyed; without [anyone] regarding [it] they perish forever.

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

21 [Is] not their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, but not in wisdom.'

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