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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

1 Then Elifaz the Teimani spoke up:

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

2 "If one tries to speak to you, will you mind? Yet who could keep from speaking?

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

3 You have given moral instruction to many, you have firmed up feeble hands,

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

4 your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have strengthened the weak-kneed.

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 impatient; at the first touch, you are in shock.

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

6 Isn't your fear of God your assurance, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

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

7 "Think back: what innocent person has perished? Since when are the upright destroyed?

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

8 What I see is that those who plow sin and sow trouble reap just that.

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

9 At a breath from God, they perish; at a blast from his anger, they are consumed.

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

10 The lion may growl, the king lion may roar, but that old lion's teeth are broken;

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

11 so the lion succumbs from lack of prey, and the lion's cubs are scattered.

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

12 "For a word was stealthily brought to me, my ear caught only a whisper of it.

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

13 In passing thoughts flashing through visions at night, when sleep lies heavy on people,

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

14 a shiver of horror came over me; it made all my bones tremble.

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

15 Then a spirit passed in front of my face; the hair of my flesh stood on end.

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 stood still, but I couldn't make out its appearance; yet the form stayed there before my eyes. Then I heard a subdued 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 seen by God as righteous? Can a mortal be pure before his maker?

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

18 [God] doesn't trust his own servants, he finds fault even with his angels;

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 much more those living in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust. They are crushed more easily than a worm;

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

20 shattered between morning and evening; they perish forever, and no one takes notice.

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

21 Their cord within them is pulled up; then they die, without ever gaining wisdom.'