LEB - Job - 4

4:1  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

4:2  “If someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? But who can refrain from speaking?

4:3  Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.

4:4  Your words have raised up the one who stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way.

4:5  But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified.

4:6  Is not your fear in God your confidence? Is not your hope even the integrity of your ways?

4:7  “⌞Think⌟ now, who has perished who is innocent? Or where are the upright destroyed?

4:8  Just as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.

4:9  By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they come to an end.

4:10  The roar of the lion and the voice of a lion in its prime, and the teeth of the young lions are broken.

4:11  The lion is perishing without prey, and the lion’s whelps are scattered.

4:12  “And a word came stealing to me, and my ear received the whisper from it.

4:13  Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at the falling of deep sleep on men,

4:14  dread met me, and trembling, and it made many of my bones shake.

4:15  And a spirit glided before my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.

4:16  It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form was ⌞before⌟ my eyes; there was a hush, and I heard a voice:

4:17  ‘Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?

4:18  Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error.

4:19  How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.

4:20  ⌞Between morning and evening⌟ they are destroyed; without anyone regarding it they perish forever.

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