Job 3
Job 4
Job 4:1. Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 4:2. If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 4:3. Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4. Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 4:5. But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job 4:6. Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Job 4:7. Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Job 4:8. Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 4:9. By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job 4:10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:11. The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Job 4:12. Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job 4:13. In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Job 4:14. Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Job 4:15. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
Job 4:16. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Job 4:17. Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 4:18. Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Job 4:19. How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 4:20. They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21. Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Job 5