Job 4

¹ Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

² If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

³ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

⁴ Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast confirmed the feeble knees.

⁵ But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

⁶ Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?

⁷ Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the upright cut off?

⁸ According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger are they consumed.

¹⁰ The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

¹¹ The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

¹² Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.

¹³ In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

¹⁴ Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

¹⁵ Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.

¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes: there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

¹⁷ Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

¹⁸ Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; and his angels he chargeth with folly:

¹⁹ How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth!

²⁰ Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

²¹ Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? they die, and that without wisdom.