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Job 4

New Revised Standard NRS

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

2 "If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? But who can keep from speaking?

3 See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened the weak hands.

4 Your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.

6 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?

7 "Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?

8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.

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

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

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

12 "Now a word came stealing to me, my ear received the whisper of it.

13 Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals,

14 dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

15 A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.

16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:

17 "Can mortals be righteous before God? Can human beings be pure before their Maker?

18 Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

19 how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.

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

21 Their tent-cord is plucked up within them, and they die devoid of wisdom.'

The Message Bible MSG

1 Then Eliphaz from Teman spoke up:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 A spirit glided right in front of me - the hair on my head stood on end.

16 I couldn't tell what it was that appeared there - a blur . . . and then I heard a muffled voice:

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

18 Why, God doesn't even trust his own servants, doesn't even cheer his angels,

19 So how much less these bodies composed of mud, fragile as moths?

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

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