| New International Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: |
| 2"If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking? | 2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking? |
| 3Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. | 3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. |
| 4Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees. | 4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling. |
| 5But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed. | 5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. |
| 6Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope? | 6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope? |
| 7"Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed? | 7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed? |
| 8As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it. | 8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. |
| 9At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more. | 9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed. |
| 10The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken. | 10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. |
| 11The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. | 11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. |
| 12"A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it. | 12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it. |
| 13Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people, | 13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men, |
| 14fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake. | 14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder. |
| 15A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end. | 15Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled. |
| 16It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice: | 16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice: |
| 17Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker? | 17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker? |
| 18If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error, | 18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, |
| 19how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth! | 19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! |
| 20Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever. | 20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever. |
| 21Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?' | 21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’ |
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