Job 4
4
Eliphaz: God is Righteous
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite responded and said:
2“If one attempts a word with you, will you become impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
3Behold, you have instructed many; you have strengthened weak hands.
4Your words have supported those who stumbled, and strengthened buckling knees.
5Yet now it has come to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6Is not your piety your confidence, the integrity of your ways your hope?
7Reflect now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were the upright destroyed?
8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow harm, reap them.
9By the breath of God they perish; by the blast of His anger they vanish.
10The lion may roar and the cub growl, but the teeth of young lions are broken.
11The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey and the lioness’ cubs are scattered.
Testimony of an Accusing Spirit
12Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.
13Amid unsettling visions in the night, when a deep sleep falls on men,
14dread and trembling seized me, and made my bones shake.
15Then a spirit brushed over my face, and the hair of my flesh stood on end.
16It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance, A form was before my eyes and I heard a murmur, a voice:
17‘Can a mortal be righteous before God; or a man pure before his Creator?
18If He puts no trust in His servants and accuses His angels of error,
19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
20From morning until evening they are beaten into pieces— unnoticed, they perish forever.
21Is not their tent cord pulled out, so that they die without wisdom.’”
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Job 4
4
Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
3Behold, you have instructed many,
and you have #Isa. 35:3; [Heb. 12:12]strengthened the weak hands.
4Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
and you have #[See ver. 3 above]made firm the feeble knees.
5But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
it touches you, and you are dismayed.
6 # ch. 1:1 Is not your fear of God#4:6 Hebrew lacks of God your #ch. 31:24; Prov. 3:26confidence,
and the integrity of your ways your hope?
7“Remember: #[Ps. 37:25]who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?
8As I have seen, those who #Hos. 10:13; [Ps. 7:14; Prov. 22:8; Gal. 6:7, 8]plow iniquity
and sow trouble reap the same.
9By #Isa. 30:33 the breath of God they perish,
and by #ch. 15:30; Ex. 15:8; Ps. 18:15; [Isa. 11:4; 2 Thess. 2:8]the blast of his anger they are consumed.
10The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,
#
Ps. 58:6; [ch. 29:17; Ps. 3:7] the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12“Now a word was brought to me stealthily;
my ear received #ch. 26:14the whisper of it.
13Amid #ch. 20:2 thoughts from #ch. 33:15; Gen. 2:21; 15:12; 1 Sam. 26:12; Isa. 29:10visions of the night,
when #ch. 33:15; Gen. 2:21; 15:12; 1 Sam. 26:12; Isa. 29:10deep sleep falls on men,
14dread came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones shake.
15A spirit glided past my face;
the hair of my flesh stood up.
16It stood still,
but I could not discern its appearance.
#
Num. 12:8 A form was before my eyes;
there was silence, then I heard #[1 Kgs. 19:12]a voice:
17 # ch. 9:2; 10:4; 25:4; 32:2 ‘Can mortal man be in the right before#4:17 Or more than; twice in this verse God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?
18Even in his servants #ch. 15:15he puts no trust,
and his angels he charges with error;
19how much more those who dwell in houses of #ch. 10:9; 13:12; 33:6; Isa. 64:8; 2 Cor. 4:7; 5:1 clay,
whose foundation is in #Gen. 2:7; 3:19; 18:27 the dust,
who are crushed like#4:19 Or before #[ch. 13:28]the moth.
20Between #[Ps. 90:5, 6; Isa. 38:12] morning and evening they are beaten to pieces;
they perish forever #[Isa. 42:25; 57:1]without anyone regarding it.
21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them,
# ch. 36:12; Prov. 5:23; 10:21; [Hos. 4:6] do they not die, and that without wisdom?’
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