Job - Chapter 4 - A Conservative Version
- Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,
- If a man tries to converse with thee, will thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
- Behold, thou have instructed many, and thou have strengthened the weak hands.
- Thy words have upheld him who was falling, and thou have made firm the feeble knees.
- But now it comes to thee, and thou faint. It touches thee, and thou are troubled.
- Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope?
- Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
- According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
- By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
- The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
- The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
- Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.
- In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
- fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
- Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
- 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],
- Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his maker?
- Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his [heavenly] agents with folly.
- How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
- Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
- Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.