Jubilee2000 - Job - 4

4:1  Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered and said,

4:2  If we attempt to commune with thee, thou wilt be grieved. But who can withhold himself from speaking?

4:3  Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

4:4  Thy words have upheld the one that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

4:5  But now that it is come upon thee, thou art grieved; it touches thee, and thou art troubled.

4:6  Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the integrity of thy ways?

4:7  Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?

4:8  Even as I have seen, those that plow iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same.

4:9  By the breath of God they perish, and by the spirit of his anger they are consumed.

4:10  The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

4:11  The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

4:12  Now the matter was also hidden from me, but my ear has perceived a little of it.

4:13  In imaginations of visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

4:14  fear came upon me and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

4:15  Then a spirit passed before me which caused the hair of my flesh to stand up.

4:16  A ghost stood in front of me, whose face I did not recognize, and I heard it say,

4:17  Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?

4:18  Behold, he put no trust in his servants, and his angels he charged with folly.

4:19  How much more [with] those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [who] shall be crushed by the moth!

4:20  They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish for ever without anyone regarding [it].

4:21  Does their beauty perish with them? They die and do not know.: