Job 4:12–5:7

¹²Now a thing was secretly brought to me,

And mine ear received ^la little thereof.

¹³In ^mthoughts from the visions of the night,

When ⁿdeep sleep falleth on men.

¹⁴Fear came upon me, and ^otrembling,

Which made all my bones to shake.

¹⁵Then ^pa spirit passed before my face;

The hair of my flesh ^qstood up:

¹⁶It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof:

^rAn image was before mine eyes,

There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

^17sShall mortal man be more just than God?

Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

¹⁸Behold, he ^tput no trust in his servants;

And his angels ^uhe charged with folly:

^19xHow much less in them that dwell in ^yhouses of clay,

Whose foundation is in ^zthe dust,

Which are crushed before ^athe moth?

^20bThey are destroyed from morning to evening:

They perish for ever without any ^cregarding it.

^21dDoth not their excellency which is in them go away?

^eThey die, even without wisdom.

V.Call now, if there be any that will answer thee;

And to which of the ^asaints wilt thou turn?

²For ^bwrath killeth the foolish man,

And envy slayeth the silly one.

^3cI have seen the foolish taking root:

But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

^4dHis children are far from safety,

And they are crushed ^ein the gate, ^fneither is there any to deliver them.

⁵Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,

And taketh it even out of ^gthe thorns,

And the robber swalloweth up their ^hsubstance.

⁶Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust,

Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

⁷Yet man is ⁱborn unto trouble,

As the sparks fly upward.