Job Chapter 4

• Job 4:1
  Job.
• Job 4:2
  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
• Job 4:3
  “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
• Job 4:4
  Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
• Job 4:5
  Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
• Job 4:6
  But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
• Job 4:7
  Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
• Job 4:8
  “Remember, now, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
• Job 4:9
  According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same.
• Job 4:10
  By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed.
• Job 4:11
  The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
• Job 4:12
  The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
• Job 4:13
  “Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
• Job 4:14
  In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
• Job 4:15
  fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
• Job 4:16
  Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
• Job 4:17
  It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,
• Job 4:18
  ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
• Job 4:19
  Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
• Job 4:20
  How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
• Job 4:21
  Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
• Job 4:22
  Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’