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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

1 Job, will you be annoyed if I speak?

2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

2 I can't keep quiet any longer.

3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

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

4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

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

5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

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

6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

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

7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

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

8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

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

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

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

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

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

11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

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

12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

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

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

13 Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.

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

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

15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

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

16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

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:

17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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

18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

18 God does not trust his heavenly servants; he finds fault even with his angels.

19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

19 Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?

20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

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

21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

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

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