Job Chapter 4 Back Next{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 firm the feeble knees.
{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 plow 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.'
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