| 4:1 |
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, |
| 4:2 |
"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? |
| 4:3 |
Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands. |
| 4:4 |
Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees. |
| 4:5 |
But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled. |
| 4:6 |
Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope? |
| 4:7 |
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? |
| 4:8 |
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same. |
| 4:9 |
By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed. |
| 4:10 |
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
| 4:11 |
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad. |
| 4:12 |
"Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it. |
| 4:13 |
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, |
| 4:14 |
fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. |
| 4:15 |
Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up. |
| 4:16 |
It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. 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. He charges his angels with error. |
| 4:19 |
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! |
| 4:20 |
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. |
| 4:21 |
Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.' |
