The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Job 04
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 “If someone ventures to talk with you,
will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from
speaking?
3 Behold, you have instructed many,
you have strengthened the weak
hands.
4 Your words have supported him who was
falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
5 But now it has come to you, and you faint.
It touches you, and you are troubled.
6 Isn’t your piety your confidence?
Isn’t the integrity of your ways your
hope?
7 “Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent?
Or where were the upright cut off?
8 According to what I have seen, those who
plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
9 By the breath of God they perish.
By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion,
and the voice of the fierce lion,
the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey.
The cubs of the lioness are scattered
abroad.
12 “Now a thing was secretly broughtto me.
My ear received a whisper of it.
13 In thoughts from the visions ofthe night,
when deep sleep falls on men,
14 fear came on me, and trembling,
which made all my bones shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face.
The hair of my flesh stood up.
16 It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its
appearance. A form was before my eyes.
Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
17 ‘Shall mortal man be more just than
God? Shall a man be more pure than his
Maker?
18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants.
He charges his angels with error.
19 How much more those who dwell in
houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed before the moth!
20 Between morning and evening they are
destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within
them? They die, and that without wisdom.’