# Job 4 
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1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: 
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2. “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? 
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3. Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. 
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4. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. 
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5. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. 
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6. Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? 
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7. “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? 
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8. As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. 
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9. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. 
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10. The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken. 
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11. The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. 
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12. “Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it. 
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13. Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, 
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14. dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. 
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15. A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. 
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16. It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice: 
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17. ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? 
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18. Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; 
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19. how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. 
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20. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. 
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21. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’ 

(ESV)