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Job 4

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

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

3 Truly, you have been a helper to others, and you have made feeble hands strong;

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

4 He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.

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

5 But now it has come on you and it is a weariness to you; you are touched by it and your mind is troubled.

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

6 Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

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

7 Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

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

8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.

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

9 By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

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

10 Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, 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 comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.

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

12 A word was given to me secretly, and the low sound of it came to my ears.

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

13 In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

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

14 Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

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

15 And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:

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

16 Something was present before me, but I was not able to see it clearly; there was a form before my eyes: a quiet voice came to my ears, 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 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

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

18 Truly, he puts no faith in his servants, and he sees error in his angels;

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

19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

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 completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

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

21 If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?

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

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