Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,WEB — Job 4:1

2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?WEB — Job 4:2

3 Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands.WEB — Job 4:3

4 Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.WEB — Job 4:4

5 But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.WEB — Job 4:5

6 Isn't your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?WEB — Job 4:6

7 “Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?WEB — Job 4:7

8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.WEB — Job 4:8

9 By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed.WEB — Job 4:9

10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken.WEB — Job 4:10

11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.WEB — Job 4:11

12 “Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.WEB — Job 4:12

13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,WEB — Job 4:13

14 Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.WEB — Job 4:14

15 Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.WEB — Job 4:15

16 It stood still, but I couldn't discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,WEB — Job 4:16

17 ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?WEB — Job 4:17

18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.WEB — Job 4:18

19 How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!WEB — Job 4:19

20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.WEB — Job 4:20

21 Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’WEB — Job 4:21