4:1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered: |
4:2 "Shall one try to speak a word with you, or will you grow weary? But who can hold back himself from speaking? |
4:3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have made the weak hands strong. |
4:4 Your words have upheld him who was falling, and you have made strong the feeble knees. |
4:5 But now it has come upon you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled. |
4:6 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope? |
4:7 Remember now who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the righteous ever cut off? |
4:8 Even as I have seen, the ones who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same. |
4:9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of His nostrils they are destroyed. |
4:10 The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
4:11 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the strong lion's cubs are scattered abroad. |
4:12 And a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little of it. |
4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, |
4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. |
4:15 And a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. |
4:16 It stood still, but I could not tell the form of it. An image was before my eyes; there was silence; then I heard a voice saying, |
4:17 'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? |
4:18 Behold, He puts no trust in His servants servants, and His angels He charges with folly! |
4:19 How much less in those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth? |
4:20 They are destroyed from morning till evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. |
4:21 Does not their excellency which is within them go away? They die, but even without wisdom.' ” |