Job - Chapter 4 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Job, will you be annoyed if I speak? I can't keep quiet any longer.
  • 2. {cf15I (SEE 4:1)}
  • 3. You have taught many people and given strength to feeble hands.
  • 4. When someone stumbled, weak and tired, your words encouraged him to stand.
  • 5. Now it's your turn to be in trouble, and you are too stunned to face it.
  • 6. You worshiped God, and your life was blameless; and so you should have confidence and hope.
  • 7. Think back now. Name a single case where someone righteous met with disaster.
  • 8. I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.
  • 9. Like a storm, God destroys them in his anger.
  • 10. The wicked roar and growl like lions, but God silences them and breaks their teeth.
  • 11. Like lions with nothing to kill and eat, they die, and all their children are scattered.
  • 12. Once a message came quietly, so quietly I could hardly hear it.
  • 13. Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.
  • 14. I trembled and shuddered; my whole body shook with fear.
  • 15. A light breeze touched my face, and my skin crawled with fright.
  • 16. I could see something standing there; I stared, but couldn't tell what it was. Then I heard a voice out of the silence:
  • 17. "Can anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?
  • 18. God does not trust his heavenly servants; he finds fault even with his angels.
  • 19. Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?
  • 20. We may be alive in the morning, but die unnoticed before evening comes.
  • 21. All that we have is taken away; we die, still lacking wisdom."
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