Job 4

^{Job 4:1} Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

^{Job 4:2} “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

^{Job 4:3} Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

^{Job 4:4} Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

^{Job 4:5} But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

^{Job 4:6} Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

^{Job 4:7} Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

^{Job 4:8} As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

^{Job 4:9} By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

^{Job 4:10} The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

^{Job 4:11} The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

^{Job 4:12} Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

^{Job 4:13} In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

^{Job 4:14} fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.

^{Job 4:15} Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

^{Job 4:16} It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

^{Job 4:17} ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

^{Job 4:18} If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

^{Job 4:19} how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

^{Job 4:20} They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

^{Job 4:21} Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’