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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

1 Then Eliphaz, a native of Teman, responded:

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

2 If one tries to answer you, will you be annoyed? But who can hold words back?

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

3 Look, you've instructed many and given strength to drooping hands.

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

4 Your words have raised up the falling; you've steadied failing knees.

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

5 But now it comes to you, and you are dismayed; it has struck you, and you are frightened.

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

6 Isn't your religion the source of your confidence; the integrity of your conduct, the source of your hope?

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

7 Think! What innocent person has ever perished? When have those who do the right thing been destroyed?

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

8 As I've observed, those who plow sin and sow trouble will harvest it.

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

9 When God breathes deeply, they perish; by a breath of his nostril they are annihilated.

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

10 The roar of a lion and snarl of the king of beasts— yet the teeth of lions are shattered;

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

11 the lion perishes without prey, and its cubs are scattered.

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

12 But a word sneaked up on me; my ears caught a hint of it.

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

13 In profound thoughts, visions of night, when deep sleep falls on people,

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

14 fear and dread struck me; all of my bones shook.

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

15 A breeze swept by my face; the hair of my skin bristled.

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

16 It stopped. I didn't recognize its visible form, although a figure was in front of my eyes. Silence! Then I heard a voice:

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

17 "Can a human be more righteous than God, a person purer than their maker?"

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

18 If he doesn't trust his servants and levels a charge against his messengers,

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!

19 how much less those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in dust, and who are crushed like a moth?

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

20 They are smashed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone knowing.

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

21 Isn't their tent cord pulled up? They die without wisdom.