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Job 4

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.'

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites dixit

2 si coeperimus loqui tibi forsitan moleste accipias sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis possit

3 ecce docuisti multos et manus lassas roborasti

4 vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui et genua trementia confortasti

5 nunc autem venit super te plaga et defecisti tetigit te et conturbatus es

6 timor tuus fortitudo tua patientia tua et perfectio viarum tuarum

7 recordare obsecro te quis umquam innocens perierit aut quando recti deleti sint

8 quin potius vidi eos qui operantur iniquitatem et seminant dolores et metunt eos

9 flante Deo perisse et spiritu irae eius esse consumptos

10 rugitus leonis et vox leaenae et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt

11 tigris periit eo quod non haberet praedam et catuli leonis dissipati sunt

12 porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri eius

13 in horrore visionis nocturnae quando solet sopor occupare homines

14 pavor tenuit me et tremor et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt

15 et cum spiritus me praesente transiret inhorruerunt pili carnis meae

16 stetit quidam cuius non agnoscebam vultum imago coram oculis meis et vocem quasi aurae lenis audivi

17 numquid homo Dei conparatione iustificabitur aut factore suo purior erit vir

18 ecce qui serviunt ei non sunt stabiles et in angelis suis repperit pravitatem

19 quanto magis hii qui habitant domos luteas qui terrenum habent fundamentum consumentur velut a tinea

20 de mane usque ad vesperum succidentur et quia nullus intellegit in aeternum peribunt

21 qui autem reliqui fuerint auferentur ex eis morientur et non in sapientia