Job 4
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Berean Standard Bible
1Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:
3Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
4Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?
6Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
8As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken:
10The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
11The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper.
12Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
15And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
15Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
16There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:
16It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
17Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
17‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
18Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:
18If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
19How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
19how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
20From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.
20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.
21Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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