Job 4 | Strong's Bible

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CHAPTER 4

Then Eliphaz

the Temanite

replied:

“If one ventures

a word

with you,

will you be wearied?

Yet who

can

keep

from speaking?

Surely

you have instructed

many,

and have strengthened

their feeble

hands.

Your words

have steadied

those who stumbled,

and have made firm

the knees

that were buckling.

But

now

it has come

upon you,

and you are weary.

It strikes you,

and you are dismayed.

Is your reverence

not

your confidence,

and the uprightness

of your ways

your hope?

Consider

now:

Who

has perished

when

he was innocent?

Or where

were the upright

destroyed?

As

I have observed,

those who plow

iniquity,

and those who sow

trouble,

reap the same.

By the breath

of God

they perish,

and by the blast

of His anger

they are consumed.

The lion

may roar,

and the fierce lion

may growl,

yet the teeth

of the young lions

are broken.

The old lion

perishes

for lack

of prey,

and the cubs

of the lioness

are scattered.

Now a word

came to me

secretly;

my ears

caught

a whisper

of it.

In disquieting

visions

in the night,

when deep sleep

falls

on

men,

fear

and trembling

came over me

and made all

my bones

shake.

Then a spirit

glided

past

my face,

and the hair

on my body

bristled.

It stood still,

but I could not

discern

its appearance;

a form

loomed before

my eyes,

and I heard

a whispering

voice:

‘Can a mortal

be more righteous

than God,

or

a man

more pure

than his Maker?

If

God puts no

trust

in His servants,

and He charges

His angels

with error,

how much more

those who dwell

in houses

of clay,

whose

foundations

are in the dust,

who can be crushed

like a moth!

They are smashed to pieces

from dawn

to dusk;

unnoticed,

they perish

forever.

Are not their tent cords

pulled up,

so that they die

without

wisdom?’

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