Job 4

Then ^aEliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

²If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou ^bbe grieved?

But who can withhold himself from speaking?

³Behold, thou hast instructed many,

And thou ^chast strengthened the weak hands.

⁴Thy words have upholden ^chim that was falling,

And thou ^dhast strengthened the feeble knees.

⁵But now it is come upon thee, and thou ^bfaintest;

It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

⁶Is not this ^ethy fear, thy ^fconfidence,

Thy hope; and ^ethe uprightness of thy ways?

⁷Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent?

Or where were the righteous cut off?

⁸Even as I have seen, ^gthey that plow iniquity,

And sow ^hwickedness, reap the same.

⁹By the blast of God they perish,

And by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the ^hhfierce lion,

And the teeth of the ⁱyoung lions, are broken.

¹¹The old lion ^jperisheth for lack of prey,

And the stout lion’s whelps ^kare scattered abroad.

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.

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