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