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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied,

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

2 "Job, suppose someone tries to talk to you. Will that make you uneasy? I can't keep from speaking up.

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

3 Look, you taught many people. You made weak hands strong.

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

4 Your words helped those who had fallen down. You made shaky knees strong.

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

5 Now trouble comes to you. And you are unhappy about it. It strikes you down. And you are afraid.

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

6 Shouldn't you worship God and trust in him? Shouldn't your honest life give you hope?

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

7 "Here's something to think about. Have blameless people ever been wiped out? Have honest people ever been completely destroyed?

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

8 Here's what I've observed. People gather a crop from what they plant. If they plant evil and trouble, that's what they will harvest.

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

9 The breath of God destroys them. The blast of his anger wipes them out.

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

10 Powerful lions might roar and growl. But their teeth are broken.

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

11 Lions die because they don't have any food. Then their cubs are scattered.

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

12 "A message came to me in secret. It was as quiet as a whisper.

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

13 I had a scary dream one night. I was sound asleep.

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

14 Fear and trembling grabbed hold of me. That made every bone in my body shake.

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

15 A spirit glided past my face. 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:

16 Then the spirit stopped. But I couldn't tell what it was. Something stood there in front of me. I heard a soft voice.

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

17 It said, 'Can a human being be more right than God? Can a mere man be more pure than the One who made him?

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

18 God doesn't trust those who serve him. He even brings charges against 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 he'll certainly find fault with human beings. After all, they are made out of dust. They can be crushed more easily than a moth.

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

20 Between sunrise and sunset they are broken to pieces. Nobody even notices. They disappear forever.

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

21 Like a tent that falls down, they get weak. They die because they didn't follow God's wisdom.' "