Job 4 ⓘ

4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

4:2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

4:3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

4:4 Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.

4:5 But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

4:6 Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

4:7 “Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

4:8 According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.

4:9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

4:11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

4:12 “Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.

4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

4:14 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.

4:16 It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

4:17 ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

4:18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

4:19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

4:20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

4:21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’