Job 4
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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2"If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking? 2Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands. 3Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands.
4Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way. 4Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling.
5But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified. 5But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope? 6Isn't your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope?
7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed? 7Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?
8Even as I have seen, 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.
10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but 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 mighty 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.
12"Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it. 12A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men, 13Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep descends on men,
14a trembling gripped me--and a terror!--and made all my bones shake. 14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shake.
15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up. 15A wind passed by me, and I shuddered with fear.
16It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice: 16A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice:
17"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator? 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 attributes folly to his angels, 18If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness,
19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are 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 destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices.
21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom. 21Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom.
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