Job 4:1-11

a Isa. 35:3; [Heb. 12:12]

b[See ver. 3 above]

c ch. 1:1

e ch. 31:24; Prov. 3:26

f[Ps. 37:25]

g Hos. 10:13; [Ps. 7:14; Prov. 22:8; Gal. 6:7, 8]

h Isa. 30:33

i ch. 15:30; Ex. 15:8; Ps. 18:15; [Isa. 11:4; 2 Thess. 2:8]

j Ps. 58:6; [ch. 29:17; Ps. 3:7]

Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 Behold, you have instructed many,
and you have ^astrengthened the weak hands.
4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
and you have ^bmade firm the feeble knees.
5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
it touches you, and you are dismayed.
6 ^cIs not your fear of God ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks of God} your ^econfidence,
and the integrity of your ways your hope?
7 “Remember: ^fwho that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?
8 As I have seen, those who ^gplow iniquity
and sow trouble reap the same.
9 By ^hthe breath of God they perish,
and by ⁱthe blast of his anger they are consumed.
10 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,
^jthe teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.