Job 4:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Job 4:2
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
Job 4:3
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
Job 4:4
Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
Job 4:5
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Job 4:6
Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
Job 4:7
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
Job 4:8
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Job 4:9
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
Job 4:10
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Job 4:11
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Job 4:12
Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
Job 4:13
In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
Job 4:14
fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
Job 4:15
Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
Job 4:16
It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
Job 4:17
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
Job 4:18
If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
Job 4:19
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
Job 4:20
They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
Job 4:21
Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’