Job 4 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper

Job 4:1

Job 4:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Job 4:2

Job 4:2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
Yet who can keep from speaking?

Job 4:3

Job 4:3Behold, you have instructed many,
and you have strengthened the weak hands.

Job 4:4

Job 4:4Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,
and you have made firm the feeble knees.

Job 4:5

Job 4:5But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
it touches you, and you are dismayed.

Job 4:6

Job 4:6Is not your fear of God[fn] your confidence,
and the integrity of your ways your hope?

Job 4:7

Job 4:7“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished?
Or where were the upright cut off?

Job 4:8

Job 4:8As I have seen, those who plow iniquity
and sow trouble reap the same.

Job 4:9

Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish,
and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.

Job 4:10

Job 4:10The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,
the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 4:11

Job 4:11The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Job 4:12

Job 4:12“Now a word was brought to me stealthily;
my ear received the whisper of it.

Job 4:13

Job 4:13Amid thoughts from visions of the night,
when deep sleep falls on men,

Job 4:14

Job 4:14dread came upon me, and trembling,
which made all my bones shake.

Job 4:15

Job 4:15A spirit glided past my face;
the hair of my flesh stood up.

Job 4:16

Job 4:16It stood still,
but I could not discern its appearance.
A form was before my eyes;
there was silence, then I heard a voice:

Job 4:17

Job 4:17‘Can mortal man be in the right before[fn] God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?

Job 4:18

Job 4:18Even in his servants he puts no trust,
and his angels he charges with error;

Job 4:19

Job 4:19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay,
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like[fn] the moth.

Job 4:20

Job 4:20Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces;
they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

Job 4:21

Job 4:21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them,
do they not die, and that without wisdom?’

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ESV Footnotes

(4:6)

Hebrew lacks of God

(4:17)

Or more than; twice in this verse

(4:19)

Or before

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Job 4 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper

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