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Job 4

Hebrew Names Version HNV

1 Then Elifaz the Temanite answered,

2 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

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

4 Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

5 But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.

6 Isn't your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?

7 "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

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

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

11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

12 "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.

13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

14 Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.

15 Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.

16 It stood still, but I couldn't discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

21 Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

The Message Bible MSG

1 Then Eliphaz from Teman spoke up:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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