Job 4:1 (WEB)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

Job 4:2 (WEB)
"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?

Job 4:3 (WEB)
Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands.

Job 4:4 (WEB)
Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

Job 4:5 (WEB)
But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled.

Job 4:6 (WEB)
Isn't your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?

Job 4:7 (WEB)
"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

Job 4:8 (WEB)
According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same.

Job 4:9 (WEB)
By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed.

Job 4:10 (WEB)
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken.

Job 4:11 (WEB)
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

Job 4:12 (WEB)
"Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it.

Job 4:13 (WEB)
In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

Job 4:14 (WEB)
Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake.

Job 4:15 (WEB)
Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.

Job 4:16 (WEB)
It stood still, but I couldn't discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

Job 4:17 (WEB)
'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Job 4:18 (WEB)
Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

Job 4:19 (WEB)
How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

Job 4:20 (WEB)
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

Job 4:21 (WEB)
Isn't their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'
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