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Job 4

1 Then Elifaz the Teimani spoke up:

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 "If one tries to speak to you, will you mind? Yet who could keep from speaking?

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

3 You have given moral instruction to many, you have firmed up feeble hands,

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

4 your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have strengthened the weak-kneed.

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

5 "But now it comes to you, and you are impatient; at the first touch, you are in shock.

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

6 Isn't your fear of God your assurance, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

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

7 "Think back: what innocent person has perished? Since when are the upright destroyed?

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

8 What I see is that those who plow sin and sow trouble reap just that.

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

9 At a breath from God, they perish; at a blast from his anger, they are consumed.

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

10 The lion may growl, the king lion may roar, but that old lion's teeth are broken;

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

11 so the lion succumbs from lack of prey, and the lion's cubs are scattered.

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

12 "For a word was stealthily brought to me, my ear caught only a whisper of it.

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

13 In passing thoughts flashing through visions at night, when sleep lies heavy on people,

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

14 a shiver of horror came over me; it made all my bones tremble.

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

15 Then a spirit passed in front of my face; the hair of my flesh stood on end.

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

16 It stood still, but I couldn't make out its appearance; yet the form stayed there before my eyes. Then I heard a subdued 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 seen by God as righteous? Can a mortal be pure before his maker?

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

18 [God] doesn't trust his own servants, he finds fault even with his angels;

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

19 much more those living in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust. They are crushed more easily than a worm;

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 shattered between morning and evening; they perish forever, and no one takes notice.

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

21 Their cord within them is pulled up; then they die, without ever gaining wisdom.'

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