| Berean Study Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: |
| 2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking? | 2Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking? |
| 3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. | 3Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands. |
| 4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling. | 4Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. |
| 5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. | 5But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. |
| 6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope? | 6Isn't your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope? |
| 7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed? | 7Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed? |
| 8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. | 8In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same. |
| 9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed. | 9They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils. |
| 10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. | 10The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken. |
| 11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. | 11The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. |
| 12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it. | 12A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it. |
| 13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men, | 13Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep descends on men, |
| 14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder. | 14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shake. |
| 15Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled. | 15A wind passed by me, and I shuddered with fear. |
| 16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice: | 16A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice: |
| 17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker? | 17"Can a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?" |
| 18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, | 18If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness, |
| 19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! | 19how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth! |
| 20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever. | 20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices. |
| 21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’ | 21Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom. |
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