Job 4
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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking? 2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands. 3Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. 4Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
5But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. 5But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
6Isn't your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope? 6Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
7Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed? 7“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
8In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same. 8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
9They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils. 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 growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken. 10The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. 11The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it. 12“Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.
13Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep descends on men, 13Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shake. 14dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
15A wind passed by me, and I shuddered with fear. 15A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
16A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice: 16It 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 a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?" 17‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
18If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness, 18Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
19how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth! 19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices. 20Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
21Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom. 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’
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