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Job 4

Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?

3 Look! You have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.

4 Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling, and braced the knees that were buckling.

5 But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

6 Isn't your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?

7 Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?

8 In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.

9 They perish at a [single] blast from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.

10 The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken.

11 The strong lion dies if [it catches] no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

12 A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it.

13 Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep descends on men,

14 fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shake.

15 A wind passed by me, and I shuddered with fear.

16 [A figure] stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice:

17 "Can a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?"

18 If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness,

19 how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!

20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices.

21 Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom.

English Standard Version ESV

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

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

3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

6 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

7 “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

10 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

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

12 “Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.

13 Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

14 dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

15 A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:

17 ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?

18 Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.

20 Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom? ’