Job 4

CHAPTER 4

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answer-ed, and said,

²If we begin to speak to thee, in hap thou shalt take it heavily; but who may hold a word conceived?

³Lo! thou hast taught full many men, and thou hast strengthened hands made faint.

⁴Thy words have confirmed men doubting, and thou hast comforted knees trembling.

⁵But now a wound is come upon thee, and thou hast failed, or fainted ; it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.

⁶Where is thy dread, thy strength, and thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

⁷I beseech thee, have thou mind, what innocent man perished ever, either when rightful [or rightwise] men were done away?

⁸Certainly rather I saw them, that work wickedness, and sow sorrows, and reap those [or them] ,

⁹to have perished by God blowing, and to be wasted by the spirit of his ire.

¹⁰The roaring of a lion, and the voice of a lioness, and the teeth of whelps of lions, be all-broken.

¹¹Tigers perished, for she had not prey; and [the] whelps of the lion be destroyed.

¹²Certainly an hid word was said to me, and mine ear took as it were thief-like the veins of the privy speak-ing thereof.

¹³In the hideousness of [the] night’s sight, when heavy sleep is wont to occupy men,

¹⁴dread and trembling held me; and all my bones were afeared.

¹⁵And when the spirit went in my presence, the hairs of my flesh had hideousness.

¹⁶One stood, whose cheer, or likeness , I knew not, an image before mine eyes; and I heard a voice as of [a] soft wind.

¹⁷Whether a man shall be made just [or justified] in comparison of God? either a man shall be cleaner than his Maker?

¹⁸Lo! they that serve him be not steadfast; and he hath found shrewd-ness in his angels.

¹⁹How much more they that dwell in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundament, shall be wasted as of a moth.

²⁰From morrowtide till to eventide they shall be cut down; and for no man understandeth, they shall perish without end.

²¹And they, that be left, shall be taken away; they shall die, and not in wisdom.