Job 4

1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered Job.

2 to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able

“Could I say a word? I don't want to upset you but who could keep quiet and not respond?

3 behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen

You've certainly encouraged many people and supported those who are weak.

4 to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen

Your advice has helped those who are stumbling not to fall, and you have strengthened those whose knees are weak.

5 for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay

But now you're the one suffering and you're upset.

6 not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your

Wasn't it your reverence for God that gave you confidence and your integrity that gave you hope?

7 to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide

Think about it: since when did the innocent die? Since when were good people destroyed?

8 like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him

From what I've seen it's those who plant evil and sow trouble who reap the same!

9 from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy

A breath from God destroys them; a blast of his anger wipes them out.

10 roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break

Lions may roar and growl, but their teeth still break.

11 lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate

Even a lion dies from lack of food, and the lioness' cubs are scattered.

12 and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him

A word quietly crept up on me; a whisper reached my ear.

13 in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human

Troubling thoughts came to me in nightmares when you fall into a deep sleep.

14 dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread

I became terrified and trembled; all my bones were shaking.

15 and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my

Then a breath brushed my face and gave me goose-pimples.

16 to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear

Something stopped, but I couldn't see its face. My eyes could only make out a shape. It was totally quiet, and then I heard a voice:

17 human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man

‘Can anyone be right before God? Can anyone be pure before their Maker?

18 look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error

If he doesn't even trust his servants, and he says his angels make mistakes,

19 also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth

how much more does this apply to those who live in these houses made of clay, whose foundations are based on dust, who fall apart like clothing to a moth?

20 from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish

Alive in the morning, they are dead by evening. They die, unnoticed.

21 not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom

They are like tent ropes that are pulled up, and they collapse in death. They die without wisdom.’