AFV2020 - Job - 4

4:1  And Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

4:2  "Shall one try to speak a word with you, or will you grow weary? But who can hold back himself from speaking?

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

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

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

4:6  Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

4:7  Remember now who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the righteous ever cut off?

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

4:9  By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils they are destroyed.

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

4:11  The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the strong lion's cubs are scattered abroad.

4:12  And a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little of it.

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

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

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

4:16  It stood still, but I could not tell the form of it. An image was before my eyes; there was silence; then 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 servants, and His angels He charges with folly!

4:19  How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

4:20  They are destroyed from morning till evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

4:21  Does not their excellency which is within them go away? They die, but even without wisdom.' ”