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Job 4

New International Version NIV

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body 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:

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

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

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

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

Good News Translation GNT

1 Job, will you be annoyed if I speak?

2 I can't keep quiet any longer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13 Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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