Geneva1599 - Job - 4

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

4:2  If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?

4:3  Behold, thou hast taught many, and hast strengthened the wearie hands.

4:4  Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.

4:5  But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

4:6  Is not this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?

4:7  Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?

4:8  As I haue seene, they that plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same.

4:9  With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrels are they cosumed.

4:10  The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, and the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.

4:11  The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.

4:12  But a thing was brought to me secretly, and mine eare hath receiued a litle thereof.

4:13  In the thoughtes of ye visions of the night, when sleepe falleth on men,

4:14  Feare came vpon me, and dread which made all my bones to tremble.

4:15  And the wind passed before me, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp.

4:16  Then stoode one, and I knewe not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voyce, saying,

4:17  Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?

4:18  Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his Angels.

4:19  Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?

4:20  They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.

4:21  Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, and that without wisdom?