Job 4
1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered * and said * ,
2. If we assay * to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved * ? but who can * withhold * himself from speaking?
3. Behold, thou hast instructed * many, and thou hast strengthened * the weak hands.
4. Thy words have upholden * him that was falling * , and thou hast strengthened * the feeble * knees.
5. But now it is come * upon thee, and thou faintest * ; it toucheth * thee, and thou art troubled * .
6. Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
7. Remember * , I pray thee, who ever perished * , being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off * ?
8. Even as I have seen * , they that plow * iniquity, and sow * wickedness, reap * the same.
9. By the blast of God they perish * , and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed * .
10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken * .
11. The old lion perisheth * for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad * .
12. Now a thing was secretly brought * to me, and mine ear received * a little thereof.
13. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth * on men,
14. Fear came * upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake * .
15. Then a spirit passed * before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up * :
16. It stood still * , but I could not discern * the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and 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 put no trust * in his servants; and his angels he charged * with folly:
19. How much less in them that dwell * in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed * before the moth?
20. They are destroyed * from morning to evening: they perish * for ever without any regarding * it.
21. Doth not their excellency which is in them go away * ? they die * , even without wisdom.
