Job 4:1-21
4 Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:—
2 If one attempt a word unto thee wilt thou be impatient? But to restrain speech who can endure?
3 Lo! thou hast admonished many, And slack hands hast thou been wont to uphold:
4 Him that was stumbling have thy words raised up, And sinking knees hast thou strengthened.
5 But now it cometh upon thee And thou despairest, It smiteth even thee, And thou art dismayed.
6 Is not thy reverence thy confidence? And is not thy hope the very integrity of thy ways?
7 Remember, I pray thee, who being innocent hath perished, Or when the upright have been cut off.
8 So far as I have seen They who plow for iniquity And sow misery Reap the same:
9 By the blast of God they perish, And by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed:
10 [Notwithstanding] the roaring of the lion and the noise of the howling lion Yet the teeth of the fierce lions are broken:
11 The strong lion perishing for lack of prey Even the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
12 But unto me something was brought by stealth,—And mine ear caught a whispering of the same:
13 When there were thoughts from visions of the night,—When deep sleep falleth upon men
14 Dread came upon me and trembling, The multitude of my bones it put in dread:
15 Then a spirit over my face floated along, The hair of my flesh bristled-up:
16 It stood still but I could not distinguish its appearance, I looked but there was no form before mine eyes,—A whispering voice I heard:—
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Or a man be more pure than his Maker?
18 Lo! in his own servants he trusteth not, And his own messengers he chargeth with error:
19 How much more the dwellers in houses of clay, Which in the dust have their foundation, Which are crushed sooner than a moth:
20 Betwixt morning and evening are they broken in pieces, With none to save they utterly perish:
21 Is not their tent-rope within them torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!
