Job 4

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:

2 “Has one tried a word with you? You are weary! And who is able to keep in words?

3 Behold, you have instructed many, And feeble hands you make strong.

4 Your words raise up the stumbling one, And you strengthen bowing knees.

5 But now, it comes to you, And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled.

6 Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?

7 Now remember, Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

8 As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!

9 From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger [are] consumed.

10 The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.

11 An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness separate.

12 And a thing is secretly brought to me, And my ear receives a little of it.

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

14 Fear has met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.

15 And a spirit passes before my face, The hair of my flesh stands up;

16 It stands, and I do not discern its aspect, A likeness [is] before my eyes, Silence! And I hear a voice:

17 Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a man cleaner than his Maker?

18 Behold, He puts no credence in His servants, Nor sets praise in His messengers.

19 Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth).

20 From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, they perish forever.

21 Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”