Job 4:1
And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --
Job 4:2
Hath one tried a word with thee? --Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?
Job 4:3
Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.
Job 4:4
The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.
Job 4:5
But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.
Job 4:6
Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope--the perfection of thy ways?
Job 4:7
Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
Job 4:8
As I have seen--ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
Job 4:9
From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.
Job 4:10
The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.
Job 4:11
An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.
Job 4:12
And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it.
Job 4:13
In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,
Job 4:14
Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.
Job 4:15
And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;
Job 4:16
It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude is over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear:
Job 4:17
`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?
Job 4:18
Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'
Job 4:19
Also--the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
Job 4:20
From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.
Job 4:21
Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!