DB1
katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE - select-a-version: katapi NEW STUDY BIBLE
katapi HOME Job 4:1-5:27 - THE FIRST DIALOGUE. Jb.4.1-14.22. Eliphaz.  Jb.4.1-5.27

4 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

4 2 "If one ventures a word with you, will you be offended?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
4 3 Behold, you have instructed many,
and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4 4 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
and you have made firm the feeble knees.
4 5 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
it touches you, and you are dismayed.
4 6 Is not your fear of God your confidence,
and the integrity of your ways your hope?

4 7 "Think now, who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?
4 8 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity
and sow trouble reap the same.
4 9 By the breath of God they perish,
and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
4 10 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,
the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
4 11 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

4 12 "Now a word was brought to me stealthily,
my ear received the whisper of it.
4 13 Amid thoughts from visions of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men,
4 14 dread came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones shake.
4 15 A spirit glided past my face;
the hair of my flesh stood up.
4 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:
4 17 'Can mortal man be righteous before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
4 18 Even in his servants he puts no trust,
and his angels he charges 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 for ever without any regarding it.
4 21 If their tent-cord is plucked up within them,
do they not die, and that without wisdom?

5 1 "Call now; is there any one who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
5 2 Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.
5 3 I have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
5 4 His sons are far from safety,
they are crushed in the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.
5 5 His harvest the hungry eat,
and he takes it even out of thorns;
and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
5 6 For affliction does not come from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
5 7 but man is born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.

5 8 "As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause;
5 9 who does great things and unsearchable,
marvelous things without number:
5 10 he gives rain upon the earth
and sends waters upon the fields;
5 11 he sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
5 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
5 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
5 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime,
and grope at noonday as in the night.
5 15 But he saves the fatherless from their mouth,
the needy from the hand of the mighty.
5 16 So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth.

5 17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves;
therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
5 18 For he wounds, but he binds up;
he smites, but his hands heal.
5 19 He will deliver you from six troubles;
in seven there shall no evil touch you.
5 20 In famine he will redeem you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword.
5 21 You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue,
and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
5 22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
5 23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,
and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
5 24 You shall know that your tent is safe,
and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
5 25 You shall know also that your descendants shall be many,
and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
5 26 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,
as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.
5 27 Lo, this we have searched out; it is true.
Hear, and know it for your own good."