Job 4:8-18

8 Como yo he visto que los que aran iniquidad y siembran injuria, la siegan

9 Perecen por el aliento de Dios, y por el espíritu de su furor son consumidos

10 El bramido del león, y la voz del león, y los dientes de los leoncillos son arrancados

11 El león viejo perece por falta de presa, y los hijos del león son esparcidos

12 El negocio también me era a mí oculto; mas mi oído ha percibido algo de ello

13 En imaginaciones de visiones nocturnas, cuando el sueño cae sobre los hombres

14 me sobrevino un espanto y un temblor, que estremeció todos mis huesos

15 Y un espíritu que pasó por delante de mí, hizo que se erizara el vello de mi carne

16 Se paró un fantasma delante de mis ojos, cuyo rostro yo no conocí, y quedo, oí que decía

17 ¿Por ventura será el hombre más justo que Dios? ¿Será el varón más limpio que el que lo hizo

18 He aquí que en sus siervos no confía, y en sus ángeles halló locura

Job 4:8-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 4

Job's sore afflictions, and his behaviour under them, laid the foundation of a dispute between him and his three friends, which begins in this chapter, and is carried on to the end of the thirty first; when Elihu starts up as a moderator between them, and the controversy is at last decided by God himself. Eliphaz first enters the list with Job, Job 4:1; introduces what he had to say in a preface, with some show of tenderness, friendship, and respect, Job 4:2; observes his former conduct in his prosperity, by instructing many, strengthening weak hands and feeble knees, and supporting stumbling and falling ones, Job 4:3,4; with what view all this is observed may be easily seen, since he immediately takes notice of his present behaviour, so different from the former, Job 4:5; and insults his profession of faith and hope in God, and fear of him, Job 4:6; and suggests that he was a bad man, and an hypocrite; and which he grounds upon this supposition, that no good man was ever destroyed by the Lord; for the truth of which he appeals to Job himself, Job 4:7; and confirms it by his own experience and observation, Job 4:8-11; and strengthens it by a vision he had in the night, in which the holiness and justice of God, and the mean and low condition of men, are declared, Job 4:12-21; and therefore it was wrong in Job to insinuate any injustice in God or in his providence, and a piece of weakness and folly to contend with him.