| King James Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job: |
| 2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? | 2“Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out? |
| 3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. | 3“In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak. |
| 4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. | 4Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees. |
| 5But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. | 5But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you. |
| 6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? | 6Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope? |
| 7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? | 7“Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed? |
| 8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. | 8My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same. |
| 9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. | 9A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger. |
| 10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. | 10The lion roars and the wildcat snarls, but the teeth of strong lions will be broken. |
| 11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. | 11The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered. |
| 12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. | 12“This truth was given to me in secret, as though whispered in my ear. |
| 13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, | 13It came to me in a disturbing vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep. |
| 14Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. | 14Fear gripped me, and my bones trembled. |
| 15Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: | 15A spirit swept past my face, and my hair stood on end. |
| 16It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, | 16The spirit stopped, but I couldn’t see its shape. There was a form before my eyes. In the silence I heard a voice say, |
| 17Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? | 17‘Can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’ |
| 18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: | 18“If God does not trust his own angels and has charged his messengers with foolishness, |
| 19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? | 19how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth. |
| 20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. | 20They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace. |
| 21Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. | 21Their tent-cords are pulled and the tent collapses, and they die in ignorance. |
| King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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