Job 4
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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?2"If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.3Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.
4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.4Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.
5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.5But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.
6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?6Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?
7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?
8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity 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.9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.12"Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.
13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.14a trembling gripped me--and a terror!--and made all my bones shake.
15Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.
16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:16It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:
17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?17"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,18If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,
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 to those who live in houses of clay, 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 destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.
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