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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

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

3 For whereas thou hast instructed many, and hast strengthened the hands of the weak one,

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

4 and hast supported the failing with words, and hast imparted courage to feeble knees.

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

5 Yet now pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.

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

6 Is not thy fear in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?

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

7 Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

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

8 Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

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

9 They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.

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

10 The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

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

11 The old lion has perished for want of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

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

12 But if there had been any truth in thy words, none of these evils would have befallen thee. Shall not mine ear receive excellent from him?

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

13 But terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,

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

14 horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake.

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

15 And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered.

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

16 I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there, was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, ,

16 It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:

17 What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

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

18 Whereas he trust not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels.

18 If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,

19 But them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them 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 And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.

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

21 For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.

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

The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.