Job 4:1 (BSB)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 4:2 (BSB)
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?

Job 4:3 (BSB)
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

Job 4:4 (BSB)
Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

Job 4:5 (BSB)
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Job 4:6 (BSB)
Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

Job 4:7 (BSB)
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

Job 4:8 (BSB)
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Job 4:9 (BSB)
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

Job 4:10 (BSB)
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 4:11 (BSB)
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Job 4:12 (BSB)
Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.

Job 4:13 (BSB)
In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

Job 4:14 (BSB)
fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.

Job 4:15 (BSB)
Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.

Job 4:16 (BSB)
It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:

Job 4:17 (BSB)
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Job 4:18 (BSB)
If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

Job 4:19 (BSB)
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

Job 4:20 (BSB)
They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Job 4:21 (BSB)
Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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