ABP - Job - 4

4:1  And undertaking, Eliphaz the Temanite says,

4:2  If we take to speak to you, will you tire? But the strength of your words, who shall endure?

4:3  For since you admonished many, and [2the hands 3of the weak 1comforted],

4:4  [3the ones being weak 1and also 2raised up] with words, [5in knees 1and 4to the ones powerless 3courage 2you invested],

4:5  but now [2comes 3upon 4you 1misery], and touched you; and now you are hurried.

4:6  Is it not that your fear is in folly, and your hope, and the evil of your way?

4:7  Do you remember then who being pure was destroyed? or when the true ones [2entirely from the root 1were destroyed]?

4:8  As in which manner I beheld the ones plowing the unnatural places, then the ones sowing them [2griefs 1shall harvest] for themselves.

4:9  By the order of the lord they shall perish, and by the breath of his anger they shall be obliterated.

4:10  The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the prancing of dragons shall be extinguished.

4:11  The small lion is destroyed by not having game; and the cubs of lions forsook one another.

4:12  [2to 3me 1And] it was spoken clandestinely in stealth; shall not [3receive 1my 2ear] extraordinary things by him,

4:13  in amazement from [3vision 1my 2nightly] falling fear upon men?

4:14  But a shuddering awe met with me, and trembling, and [4greatly 1my 2bones 3quaked].

4:15  And a spirit [2upon 3my face 1came], [6shuddered 1and 2my 3hair 4and 5flesh].

4:16  I rose up, and knew not; I saw and [3no 2was 1there] appearance before my eyes, but only a breeze; and [2a voice 1I heard], saying,

4:17  For what, Shall [3pure 2be 1a mortal] before the lord? or [3from 4his works 2be blameless 1shall a man]?

4:18  If [2even 4his servants 1he does not 3trust], and even considers his angels as crooked in what he thinks about,

4:19  then the ones dwelling in houses of clay, of whom also we [2from out of 3the 4same 5mortar 1are] -- he smites them [2of a moth 1in the manner].

4:20  And from morning until evening [2no longer 1they are]; by their not being able [3themselves 1to help themselves 2they] perish.

4:21  You raised up together their vestige in them; they perished by [2not 3having 1their] wisdom.