LITV - Job - 4

4:1  And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

4:2  Shall one try a word with you, you who are weary? But who can hold back with words?

4:3  Behold, you have instructed many; and you have made weak hands strong.

4:4  Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made feeble knees strong.

4:5  But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

4:6  Is not your reverence your hope; your hope the uprightness of your ways?

4:7  I beg you, remember, Who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off?

4:8  As I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity and sow misery reap the same.

4:9  They perish from the breath of God, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

4:10  The lion roars; and the voice of the lion and the teeth of the young lions are broken;

4:11  the old lion is perishing for lack of prey; and the lioness' offspring are scattered.

4:12  Now a word was stolen to me, and 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 and trembling met me, and made my many bones dread.

4:15  Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up;

4:16  it stood still, but I could not discern its form; an image was before my eyes; there was silence; then I heard a voice:

4:17  Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?

4:18  Behold, He puts no trust in His servants; and He charges His angels with folly!

4:19  How much more those that dwell in houses of clay; whose foundation is in the dust; they crush them before the moth!

4:20  They are shattered from morning till evening; they perish forever with no one regarding.

4:21  Is not their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, but not with wisdom.