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Job 4 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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First Series of Speeches
Eliphaz Speaks

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Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

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Should anyone try to speak with you

when you are exhausted?

Yet who can keep from speaking?

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Indeed, you have instructed many

and have strengthened weak hands.

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Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling

and braced the knees that were buckling.

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But now that this has happened to you,

you have become exhausted.

It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

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Isn’t your piety your confidence,

and the integrity of your life[fn] your hope?

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Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent?

Where have the honest[fn] been destroyed?

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In my experience, those who plow injustice

and those who sow trouble reap the same.

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They perish at a single blast from God

and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils.

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The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl,

but the teeth of young lions are broken.

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The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,

and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

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A word was brought to me in secret;

my ears caught a whisper of it.

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Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,

when deep sleep comes over men,

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fear and trembling came over me

and made all my bones shake.

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I felt a draft[fn] on my face,

and the hair on my body stood up.

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A figure stood there,

but I could not recognize its appearance;

a form loomed before my eyes.

I heard a whispering voice:

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“Can a mortal be righteous before God?

Can a man be more pure than his Maker? ”

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If God puts no trust in his servants

and he charges his angels with foolishness,[fn]

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how much more those who dwell in clay houses,

whose foundation is in the dust,

who are crushed like a moth!

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They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;

they perish forever while no one notices.

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Are their tent cords not pulled up?

They die without wisdom.

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Lit ways
Or the upright, or those with integrity
Or a spirit
Or error ; Hb obscure
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Job Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras