The Book of Job

chapter 4


Chapters:


verse #1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,


verse #2

“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?


verse #3

Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.


verse #4

Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.


verse #5

But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.


verse #6

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?


verse #7

“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?


verse #8

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.


verse #9

By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.


verse #10

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.


verse #11

The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.


verse #12

“Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.


verse #13

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,


verse #14

fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.


verse #15

Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.


verse #16

It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,


verse #17

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?


verse #18

Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.


verse #19

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!


verse #20

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.


verse #21

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

Chapters:


Books