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Job 4 :: New English Translation (NET)

Job 4:1

Job 4:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

Job 4:2

Job 4:2"If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?

Job 4:3

Job 4:3Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.

Job 4:4

Job 4:4Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

Job 4:5

Job 4:5But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.

Job 4:6

Job 4:6Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

Job 4:7

Job 4:7Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

Job 4:8

Job 4:8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who 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 4:10There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 4:11

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

Job 4:12

Job 4:12"Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.

Job 4:13

Job 4:13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

Job 4:14

Job 4:14a trembling gripped me - and a terror! - and made all my bones shake.

Job 4:15

Job 4:15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

Job 4:16

Job 4:16It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:

Job 4:17

Job 4:17"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

Job 4:18

Job 4:18If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

Job 4:19

Job 4:19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

Job 4:20

Job 4:20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

Job 4:21

Job 4:21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.
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