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Job 4 :: New International Version (NIV)

Eliphaz

Job 4:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Job 4:2“If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
Job 4:3Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
Job 4:4Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
Job 4:5But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Job 4:6Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
Job 4:7“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
Job 4:8As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
Job 4:9At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.
Job 4:10The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
Job 4:11The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Job 4:12“A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
Job 4:13Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
Job 4:14fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
Job 4:15A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
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‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
Job 4:18If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
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 4:20Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
Job 4:21Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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