JobChapter 4

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¹Then Eliphaz from Teman answered: ²"If someone tries to say a word to you, will it wear you out?
But who can keep from speaking? ³You have taught many people.
You have made weak hands strong. ⁴Your words have held up those who tripped.
You have made weak knees strong. ⁵But now trouble has come to you, and you are worn out.
It hits you, and you are upset. ⁶Shouldn't your fear of God give you trust?
Shouldn't your honest life give you hope? ⁷Think about it, please.
Who that was innocent ever perished?
Where were honest people ever wiped out? ⁸Here is what I have seen.
Those who plow evil and plant trouble
get a harvest of the same. ⁹They die at the breath of God.
They are burned up by the blast of his anger. ¹⁰The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl.
But the teeth of the young lions are broken. ¹¹The old lion dies because he has nothing to hunt.
And the cubs of the mother lion are scattered. ¹²Now a word came to me in secret.
My ears heard a soft whisper of it. ¹³It came in upsetting visions in the night,
when people are in deep sleep. ¹⁴Fear and trembling came over me.
They made all my bones shake. ¹⁵Then a spirit slid past my face.
The hair on my body stood up. ¹⁶It stood still, but I could not tell what it looked like.
A shape stood in front of my eyes.
Then I heard a voice whisper: ¹⁷'Can a human be more right than God?
Can a man be more pure than the one who made him? ¹⁸If God does not trust his servants,
and if he blames his angels for their mistakes, ¹⁹how much less will he trust those who live in houses of clay!
They stand on dust.
They can be crushed like a moth! ²⁰Between morning and evening they are broken to pieces.
No one notices, and they are gone forever. ²¹Aren't the ropes of their tents pulled up?
So they die without wisdom.'