| 4 | Job | ||
| 1 | Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: | THE FIRST DIALOGUE. Jb.4.1-14.22. Eliphaz. Jb.4.1-5.27 | |
| 2 | "If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended? Yet who can keep from speaking? | ||
| 3 | Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. | ||
| 4 | Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. | ||
| 5 | But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. | ||
| 6 | Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? | ||
| 7 | "Think now, who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? | ||
| 8 | As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. | ||
| 9 | By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. | ||
| 10 | The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken. | ||
| 11 | The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered. | ||
| 12 | "Now a word was brought to me stealthily, my ear received the whisper of it. | ||
| 13 | Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, | ||
| 14 | dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. | ||
| 15 | A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. | ||
| 16 | It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice: | ||
| 17 | 'Can mortal man be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? | ||
| 18 | Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; | ||
| 19 | how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth. | ||
| 20 | Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it. | ||
| 21 | If their tent-cord is plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom? | ||
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