Job 4
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
2If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
5But now it is come upon thee, and thou art weary; it toucheth thee, and thou art affrighted.
6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
6Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?
7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
8According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow mischief, reap the same.
9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger are they consumed.
10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
10The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth — yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
12Now a word was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.
13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
14Fear came upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were made to shake.
15Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
15Then a spirit passed before my face, that made the hair of my flesh to stand up.
16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
16It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes; I heard a still voice:
17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
17'Shall mortal man be just before God? Shall a man be pure before his Maker?
18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
18Behold, He putteth no trust in His servants, and His angels He chargeth with folly;
19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
20Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
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