Job 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
2 “If someone tries to speak with you, will you grow weary? But who can hold back his words?
3 Look, you have instructed many and strengthened weak hands.
4 Your words lifted up those who stumbled, and you strengthened knees that were buckling.
5 But now this has come to you, and you grow weary; it touches you, and you are terrified.
6 Isn't your fear your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
7 Remember now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? And where have the upright been destroyed?
8 From what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
9 By the breath of God they perish; by the blast of his anger they come to an end.
10 The lion's roar and the fierce lion's voice are silenced, and the teeth of young lions are broken.
11 The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the lioness's cubs are scattered.”
12 “A word came to me in secret, and my ear caught a whisper of it.
13 It came amid restless thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people.
14 Fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones quake.
15 A breath passed before my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
16 It stopped, but I could not recognize its appearance; a figure was before my eyes. There was silence, and I heard a voice:
17 ‘Can a human being be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
18 Look, he does not trust his servants, and he finds fault with his angels.
19 How much more with those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, and who are crushed before the moth!
20 From morning to evening they are shattered; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 Isn't their tent-cord pulled up? They die, and without wisdom.’”
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