Job 4:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
Job 4:2
If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 4:3
Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4
Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.
Job 4:5
But now it comes to thee, and thou faint. It touches thee, and thou are troubled.
Job 4:6
Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope?
Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
Job 4:8
According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
Job 4:10
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:11
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
Job 4:12
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.
Job 4:13
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
Job 4:14
fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Job 4:15
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
Job 4:16
It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance of it. A form was before my eyes. There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Job 4:17
Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 4:18
Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his agents with folly.
Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 4:20
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.