Job 4
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1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2"If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking? 2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands. 3Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way. 4Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
5But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified. 5But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
6Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope? 6Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed? 7“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. 8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and 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.
10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken. 10The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11The mighty lion perishes for lack of 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.
12"Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it. 12“Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.
13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men, 13Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14a trembling gripped me--and a terror!--and made all my bones shake. 14dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up. 15A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
16It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring 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"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator? 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 attributes folly to his angels, 18Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
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 houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 20Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom. 21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’
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