The Book of Job

Chapter-4

Job 4:1 But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:

 

Job 4:2 If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?

 

Job 4:3 Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.

 

Job 4:4 Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees.

 

Job 4:5 But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed.

 

Job 4:6 Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?

 

Job 4:7 Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?

 

Job 4:8 In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,

 

Job 4:9 perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.

 

Job 4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away.

 

Job 4:11 The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered.

 

Job 4:12 Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.

 

Job 4:13 In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep,

 

Job 4:14 fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified.

 

Job 4:15 And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up.

 

Job 4:16 There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze.

 

Job 4:17 Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?

 

Job 4:18 Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection.

 

Job 4:19 How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?

 

Job 4:20 From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.

 

Job 4:21 But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom.