ACV - Job - 4

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

4:2  If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

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

4:4  Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.

4:5  But now it comes to thee, and thou faint. It touches thee, and thou are troubled.

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

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

4:8  According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

4:9  By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast 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 whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

4:12  Now a thing was secretly brought 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 came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

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 the appearance of it. A form was before my eyes. There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

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

4:18  Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his agents with folly.

4:19  How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

4:20  Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

4:21  Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.