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Job 4

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

2 Hath one tried a word with thee? -- Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?

2 Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?

3 Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.

3 Look! You have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.

4 The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.

4 Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling, and braced the knees that were buckling.

5 But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.

5 But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

6 Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope -- the perfection of thy ways?

6 Isn't your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?

7 Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

7 Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?

8 As I have seen -- ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

8 In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same.

9 From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.

9 They perish at a [single] blast from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils.

10 The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

10 The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken.

11 An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.

11 The strong lion dies if [it catches] no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

12 And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it.

12 A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it.

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

13 Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep descends on men,

14 Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.

14 fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shake.

15 And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;

15 A wind passed by me, and I shuddered with fear.

16 It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude [is] over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear:

16 [A figure] stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice:

17 `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

17 "Can a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?"

18 Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'

18 If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness,

19 Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)

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

20 From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.

20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices.

21 Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!

21 Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom.

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