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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz, a native of Teman, responded:

1 Then Eliphaz from Teman spoke up:

2 If one tries to answer you, will you be annoyed? But who can hold words back?

2 "Would you mind if I said something to you? Under the circumstances it's hard to keep quiet.

3 Look, you've instructed many and given strength to drooping hands.

3 You yourself have done this plenty of times, spoken words that clarify, encouraged those who were about to quit.

4 Your words have raised up the falling; you've steadied failing knees.

4 Your words have put stumbling people on their feet, put fresh hope in people about to collapse.

5 But now it comes to you, and you are dismayed; it has struck you, and you are frightened.

5 But now you're the one in trouble - you're hurting! You've been hit hard and you're reeling from the blow.

6 Isn't your religion the source of your confidence; the integrity of your conduct, the source of your hope?

6 But shouldn't your devout life give you confidence now? Shouldn't your exemplary life give you hope?

7 Think! What innocent person has ever perished? When have those who do the right thing been destroyed?

7 "Think! Has a truly innocent person ever ended up on the scrap heap? Do genuinely upright people ever lose out in the end?

8 As I've observed, those who plow sin and sow trouble will harvest it.

8 It's my observation that those who plow evil and sow trouble reap evil and trouble.

9 When God breathes deeply, they perish; by a breath of his nostril they are annihilated.

9 One breath from God and they fall apart, one blast of his anger and there's nothing left of them.

10 The roar of a lion and snarl of the king of beasts— yet the teeth of lions are shattered;

10 The mighty lion, king of the beasts, roars mightily, but when he's toothless he's useless -

11 the lion perishes without prey, and its cubs are scattered.

11 No teeth, no prey - and the cubs wander off to fend for themselves.

12 But a word sneaked up on me; my ears caught a hint of it.

12 "A word came to me in secret - a mere whisper of a word, but I heard it clearly.

13 In profound thoughts, visions of night, when deep sleep falls on people,

13 It came in a scary dream one night, after I had fallen into a deep, deep sleep.

14 fear and dread struck me; all of my bones shook.

14 Dread stared me in the face, and Terror. I was scared to death - I shook from head to foot.

15 A breeze swept by my face; the hair of my skin bristled.

15 A spirit glided right in front of me - the hair on my head stood on end.

16 It stopped. I didn't recognize its visible form, although a figure was in front of my eyes. Silence! Then I heard a voice:

16 I couldn't tell what it was that appeared there - a blur . . . and then I heard a muffled voice:

17 "Can a human be more righteous than God, a person purer than their maker?"

17 "'How can mere mortals be more righteous than God? How can humans be purer than their Creator?

18 If he doesn't trust his servants and levels a charge against his messengers,

18 Why, God doesn't even trust his own servants, doesn't even cheer his angels,

19 how much less those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in dust, and who are crushed like a moth?

19 So how much less these bodies composed of mud, fragile as moths?

20 They are smashed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone knowing.

20 These bodies of ours are here today and gone tomorrow, and no one even notices - gone without a trace.

21 Isn't their tent cord pulled up? They die without wisdom.

21 When the tent stakes are ripped up, the tent collapses - we die and are never the wiser for having lived.'