Job 4 — NETB
4Verse 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:Verse 2“If someone should attempt a word with you,
will you be impatient?
But who can refrain from speaking ?
Verse 3Look, you have instructed many;
you have strengthened feeble hands.
Verse 4Your words have supported those
who stumbled,
and you have strengthened the knees
that gave way.
Verse 5But now the same thing comes to you,
and you are discouraged;
it strikes you,
and you are terrified.
Verse 6Is not your piety your confidence,
and your blameless ways your hope?
Verse 7Call to mind now:
Who, being innocent, ever perished?
And where were upright people ever destroyed?
Verse 8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity
and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Verse 9By the breath of God they perish,
and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
Verse 10There is the roaring of the lion
and the growling of the young lion,
but the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Verse 11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
and my ear caught a whisper of it.
Verse 13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night
when a deep sleep falls on men,
Verse 14a trembling gripped me – and a terror! –
and made all my bones shake.
Verse 15Then a breath of air passes by my face;
it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.
Verse 16It stands still,
but I cannot recognize its appearance;
an image is before my eyes,
and I hear a murmuring voice:
Verse 17“Is a mortal man righteous before God?
Or a man pure before his Creator?
Verse 18If God puts no trust in his servants
and attributes folly to his angels,
Verse 19how much more to those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth?
Verse 20They are destroyed between morning and evening;
they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
Verse 21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them?
They die, yet without attaining wisdom.
will you be impatient?
But who can refrain from speaking ?
Verse 3Look, you have instructed many;
you have strengthened feeble hands.
Verse 4Your words have supported those
who stumbled,
and you have strengthened the knees
that gave way.
Verse 5But now the same thing comes to you,
and you are discouraged;
it strikes you,
and you are terrified.
Verse 6Is not your piety your confidence,
and your blameless ways your hope?
Verse 7Call to mind now:
Who, being innocent, ever perished?
And where were upright people ever destroyed?
Verse 8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity
and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Verse 9By the breath of God they perish,
and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
Verse 10There is the roaring of the lion
and the growling of the young lion,
but the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Verse 11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Ungodly Complainers Provoke God’s Wrath
Verse 12“Now a word was secretly brought to me,and my ear caught a whisper of it.
Verse 13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night
when a deep sleep falls on men,
Verse 14a trembling gripped me – and a terror! –
and made all my bones shake.
Verse 15Then a breath of air passes by my face;
it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.
Verse 16It stands still,
but I cannot recognize its appearance;
an image is before my eyes,
and I hear a murmuring voice:
Verse 17“Is a mortal man righteous before God?
Or a man pure before his Creator?
Verse 18If God puts no trust in his servants
and attributes folly to his angels,
Verse 19how much more to those who live in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth?
Verse 20They are destroyed between morning and evening;
they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
Verse 21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them?
They die, yet without attaining wisdom.