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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 [If] we essay to commune with thee, wilt 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 upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

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

5 But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; 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 [Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

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

7 Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous 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 plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

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

9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath 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 roaring 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 stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

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

12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it.

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

13 In thoughts from the 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 upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

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

15 Then 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, but I could not discern its form: an image [was] before my eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],

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 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 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

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

19 How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [who] are crushed before 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 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].

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

21 Doth not their excellence [which is] in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.

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

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