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Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

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

2 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

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

3 Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands.

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

4 Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

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

5 But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.

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

6 Isn't your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?

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

7 "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

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

8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

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

9 By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

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

10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken.

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

11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

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

12 "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.

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

13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

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

14 Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.

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

15 Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.

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 discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

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

17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

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

18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. 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!

19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

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

20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

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

21 Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

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