Job 4

CHAPTER 4 Eliphaz Blames Job's Trials on Sin

1 And undertaking, Eliphaz the Temanite says, 2 If we take to speak to you, will you tire? But the strength of your words, who shall endure? 3 For since you admonished many, and [²the hands ³of the weak ¹comforted], 4 [³the ones being weak ¹and also ²raised up] with words, [⁵in knees ¹and ⁴to the ones powerless ³courage ²you invested], 5 but now [²comes ³upon ⁴you ¹misery], and touched you; and now you are hurried. 6 Is it not that your fear is in folly, and your hope, and the evil of your way? 7 Do you remember then who being pure was destroyed? or when the true ones [²entirely from the root ¹were destroyed]? 8 As in which manner I beheld the ones plowing the unnatural places, then the ones sowing them [²griefs ¹shall harvest] for themselves. 9 By the order of the lord they shall perish, and by the breath of his anger they shall be obliterated. 10 The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the prancing of dragons shall be extinguished. 11 The small lion is destroyed by not having game; and the cubs of lions forsook one another. 12 [²to ³me ¹And] it was spoken clandestinely in stealth; shall not [³receive ¹my ²ear] extraordinary things by him, 13 in amazement from [³vision ¹my ²nightly] falling fear upon men? 14 But a shuddering awe met with me, and trembling, and [⁴greatly ¹my ²bones ³quaked]. 15 And a spirit [²upon ³my face ¹came], [⁶shuddered ¹and ²my ³hair ⁴and ⁵flesh]. 16 I rose up, and knew not; I saw and [³no ²was ¹there] appearance before my eyes, but only a breeze; and [²a voice ¹I heard], saying, 17 For what, Shall [³pure ²be ¹a mortal] before the lord? or [³from ⁴his works ²be blameless ¹shall a man]? 18 If [²even ⁴his servants ¹he does not ³trust], and even considers his angels as crooked in what he thinks about, 19 then the ones dwelling in houses of clay, of whom also we [²from out of ³the ⁴same ⁵mortar ¹are] -- he smites them [²of a moth ¹in the manner]. 20 And from morning until evening [²no longer ¹they are]; by their not being able [³themselves ¹to help themselves ²they] perish. 21 You raised up together their vestige in them; they perished by [²not ³having ¹their] wisdom.