Job 4

¹But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said

²If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived

³Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands

⁴Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees

⁵But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed

⁶Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways

⁷Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed

⁸In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them

⁹perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit

¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away

¹¹The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered

¹²Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper

¹³In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep

¹⁴fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified

¹⁵And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up

¹⁶There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze

¹⁷Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker

¹⁸Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection

¹⁹How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth

²⁰From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing

²¹But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom