Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,⋮

2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?⋮

3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.⋮

4 Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.⋮

5 But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.⋮

6 Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?⋮

7 “Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?⋮

8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.⋮

9 By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.⋮

10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.⋮

11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.⋮

12 “Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.⋮

13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,⋮

14 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.⋮

15 Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.⋮

16 It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,⋮

17 ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?⋮

18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.⋮

19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!⋮

20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.⋮

21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’⋮