Job 4
New International Version - Job 4 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142 4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 4:2 'If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking? 4:3 Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. 4:4 Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees. 4:5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed. 4:6 Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope? 4:7 'Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed? 4:8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it. 4:9 At the breath of God they are destroyed; at the blast of his anger they perish. 4:10 The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken. 4:11 The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. 4:12 'A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it. 4:13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 4:14 fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake. 4:15 A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end. 4:16 It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice: 4:17 'Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker? 4:18 If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error, 4:19 how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth! 4:20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever. 4:21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?'