Parallel Bible results for "job 4"

Job 4

1 Job, will you be annoyed if I speak?

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 I can't keep quiet any longer.

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

3 You have taught many people and given strength to feeble hands.

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

4 When someone stumbled, weak and tired, your words encouraged him to stand.

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

5 Now it's your turn to be in trouble, and you are too stunned to face it.

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

6 You worshiped God, and your life was blameless; and so you should have confidence and hope.

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

7 Think back now. Name a single case where someone righteous met with disaster.

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

8 I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.

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

9 Like a storm, God destroys them in his anger.

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

10 The wicked roar and growl like lions, but God silences them and breaks their teeth.

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

11 Like lions with nothing to kill and eat, they die, and all their children are scattered.

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

12 Once a message came quietly, so quietly I could hardly hear it.

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

13 Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.

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

14 I trembled and shuddered; my whole body shook with fear.

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

15 A light breeze touched my face, and my skin crawled with fright.

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

16 I could see something standing there; I stared, but couldn't tell what it was. Then I heard a voice out of the silence:

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 anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?

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

18 God does not trust his heavenly 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 Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?

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 We may be alive in the morning, but die unnoticed before evening comes.

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

21 All that we have is taken away; we die, still lacking wisdom."

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