Job 4 :: New International Version (NIV)

Eliphaz

Job 4:1

Job 4:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 4:2

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

Job 4:3

Job 4:3Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.

Job 4:4

Job 4:4Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.

Job 4:5

Job 4:5But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Job 4:6

Job 4:6Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?

Job 4:7

Job 4:7“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?

Job 4:8

Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.

Job 4:9

Job 4:9At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.

Job 4:10

Job 4:10The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.

Job 4:11

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

Job 4:12

Job 4:12“A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.

Job 4:13

Job 4:13Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,

Job 4:14

Job 4:14fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.

Job 4:15

Job 4:15A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.

Job 4:16

Job 4:16It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:

Job 4:17

Job 4:17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?

Job 4:18

Job 4:18If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,

Job 4:19

Job 4:19how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!

Job 4:20

Job 4:20Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.

Job 4:21

Job 4:21Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

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