Job 4

1 Then Eliphaz, from Teman, replied to Job. He said,

And he answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he said.

2 “Will you please let me say something to you? I am not [RHQ] able to remain silent [any longer].

¿ Did someone attempt a word to you will you be impatient? and to restrain words who? is he able.

3 In the past, you have instructed/taught many people, and you have encouraged those who were weak.

There! you have instructed many [people] and hands slack you strengthened.

4 By what you said, you have helped those who (needed spiritual help/almost quit trusting in God) [MET], and you have enabled them to become spiritually strong again [MET].

[the] stumbling They raised! words your and knees bending you strengthened.

5 But now, when you experience disasters, you become discouraged. The disasters hit you, and you are stunned.

For now - it comes to you and you have become impatient it reaches to you and you have become dismayed.

6 You revere God; (does that not cause you to trust [in him]?/that should cause you to trust [in him].) [RHQ] If you were guiltless, you would [RHQ] be confident that [God] would not [have allowed] these disasters [to] happen to you!

¿ Not [is] fear your confidence your hope your and [the] integrity of ways your.

7 Think about this: Do innocent people die [while they are still young] [RHQ]? Does God get rid of godly people [RHQ]? [No!]

Remember please who? that innocent did he perish and where? upright [people] were they destroyed.

8 What I have experienced is this: [Just as] [MET] farmers who plant bad [seeds] do not harvest good [crops], [just as those who start] trouble for others, later bring trouble on themselves.

Just as I have seen plowers of wickedness and sowers of mischief they harvest it.

9 They die when God angrily blows his breath on them, when he is very angry with them.

From [the] breath of God they perish and from [the] breath of anger his they come to an end.

10 [Even though wicked people may be very powerful like] young lions, [God] will get rid of them [MET].

[the] roaring of A lion and [the] sound of a lion and [the] teeth of young lions they are broken out.

11 [They will die like] fierce lions [that] starve to death when there are no animals that they can kill and eat, and [their children will be separated from each other like] young lions separate from each other [to find food].”

A lion [is] perishing because not prey and [the] young of a lion they are scattered.

12 “I heard a message that someone came and whispered to me.

And to me a word it was brought secretly and it received ear my a whisper of it.

13 He spoke to me at night when I was having a bad dream that disturbed/frightened me while I was fast asleep.

In disquieting thoughts from visions of [the] night when falls deep sleep on people.

14 It caused me to be afraid and tremble; it caused all my bones to shake.

Fear it happened to me and trembling and [the] multitude of bones my it caused to tremble.

15 A ghost glided past my face and caused the hair on [on the back of] my neck to stand straight up.

And a wind over face my it passed over it made bristle [the] hair of flesh my.

16 It stopped, but I could not see what form it had. But [I could sense that] there was some being in front of me, and it said in a quiet voice,

It stood still - and not I recognized appearance its a form [was] to before eyes my a whisper and a voice I heard.

17 ‘(Does God consider anyone to be righteous?/No human beings can be righteous in God’s sight!) [RHQ] (Their creator cannot consider them to be pure./Can their creator consider them to be pure?) [RHQ]

¿ A person from God will he be righteous or? from maker his will he be pure a man.

18 God cannot be sure that his own angels [will always do what is right]; he declares that some of them have done what is wrong.

There! in servants his not he trusts and against messengers his he charges error.

19 So he certainly cannot trust human beings who were made from dust and clay, who are crushed as easily as moths are crushed!

Also - [those who] dwell of houses of clay which [is] in the dust foundation their people crush them before a moth.

20 People are sometimes well in the morning, but in the evening they are dead. They are gone forever and do not even know it (OR, and no one pays any attention to it).

From morning to evening they are crushed to pieces because not [one who] sets to perpetuity they perish.

21 They are like [MET] tents that collapse [suddenly]: They die [suddenly] before they become wise.’”

¿ Not has it been pulled up tent cord their in them will they die? and not with wisdom.