Job 4

¹Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
²If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
³Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
⁴Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
⁵But now it is come upon thee, and thou art weary; it toucheth thee, and thou art affrighted.
⁶Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?
⁷Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
⁸According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow mischief, reap the same.
⁹By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger are they consumed.
¹⁰The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth--yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
¹¹The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
¹²Now a word was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.
¹³In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
¹⁴Fear came upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were made to shake.
¹⁵Then a spirit passed before my face, that made the hair of my flesh to stand up.
¹⁶It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes; I heard a still voice:
¹⁷'Shall mortal man be just before God? Shall a man be pure before his Maker?
¹⁸Behold, He putteth no trust in His servants, and His angels He chargeth with folly;
¹⁹How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
²⁰Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
²¹Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'

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