Job - Chapter 4 | English Standard Version

  • 1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
  • 2. "If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
  • 3. Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
  • 4. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
  • 5. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
  • 6. Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
  • 7. "Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
  • 8. As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
  • 9. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
  • 10. The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
  • 11. The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
  • 12. "Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.
  • 13. Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
  • 14. dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
  • 15. A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
  • 16. It 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 mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
  • 18. Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
  • 19. how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
  • 20. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
  • 21. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
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