AB - Job - 4

4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

4:2  Have you been often spoken to in distress? But who shall endure the force of your words?

4:3  For seeing you have instructed many, and have strengthened the hands of the weak one,

4:4  and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees.

4:5  Yet now that pain has come upon you, and touched you, you are troubled.

4:6  Is not your fear founded in folly, your hope also, and the mischief of your way?

4:7  Remember then who has perished, being pure? Or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

4:8  Accordingly, as I have seen men plowing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

4:9  They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of His wrath.

4:10  The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

4:11  The old lion has perished for want of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

4:12  But if there had been any truth in your words, none of these evils would have befallen you. Shall not my ear receive excellent revelations from Him?

4:13  But as when terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,

4:14  horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake.

4:15  And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered.

4:16  I arose and perceived it not. I looked, and there was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, saying,

4:17  What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? Or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

4:18  Since he trusts not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels.

4:19  But as for them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, He smites them like a moth.

4:20  And from the morning to evening they no longer exist-they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.

4:21  For He blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.