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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

1 Then Eliphaz from Teman spoke up:

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

2 "Would you mind if I said something to you? Under the circumstances it's hard to keep quiet.

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

3 You yourself have done this plenty of times, spoken words that clarify, encouraged those who were about to quit.

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

4 Your words have put stumbling people on their feet, put fresh hope in people about to collapse.

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

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

6 But shouldn't your devout life give you confidence now? Shouldn't your exemplary life give you hope?

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

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

8 It's my observation that those who plow evil and sow trouble reap evil and trouble.

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

9 One breath from God and they fall apart, one blast of his anger and there's nothing left of them.

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

10 The mighty lion, king of the beasts, roars mightily, but when he's toothless he's useless -

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

11 No teeth, no prey - and the cubs wander off to fend for themselves.

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

12 "A word came to me in secret - a mere whisper of a word, but I heard it clearly.

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

13 It came in a scary dream one night, after I had fallen into a deep, deep sleep.

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

14 Dread stared me in the face, and Terror. I was scared to death - I shook from head to foot.

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

15 A spirit glided right in front of me - the hair on my head 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 I couldn't tell what it was that appeared there - a blur . . . and then I heard a muffled voice:

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

17 "'How can mere mortals be more righteous than God? How can humans be purer than their Creator?

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

18 Why, God doesn't even trust his own servants, doesn't even cheer 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 So how much less these bodies composed of mud, fragile as moths?

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

20 These bodies of ours are here today and gone tomorrow, and no one even notices - gone without a trace.

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

21 When the tent stakes are ripped up, the tent collapses - we die and are never the wiser for having lived.'