Chapter 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered ,
2 "If someone ventures to talk with you , will you be grieved ? But who can withhold himself from speaking ?
3 Behold , you have instructed many , you have strengthened the weak hands .
4 Your words have supported him who was falling , you have made the feeble knees firm.
5 But now it has come to you , and you faint. It touches you , and you are troubled.
6 Isn’t your piety your confidence ? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope ?
7 " Remember , now , who ever perished, being innocent ? Or where were the upright cut off ?
8 According to what I have seen , those who plow iniquity and sow trouble , reap the same.
9 By the breath of God they perish . By the blast of his anger are they consumed .
10 The roaring of the lion , and the voice of the fierce lion , the teeth of the young lions , are broken .
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey . The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad .
12 " Now a thing was secretly brought to me . My ear received a whisper of it .
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night , when deep sleep falls on men,
14 fear came on me, and trembling , which made all my bones shake .
15 Then a spirit passed before my face . The hair of my flesh stood up .
16 It stood still , but I couldn’t discern its appearance . A form was before my eyes . Silence , then I heard a voice , saying ,
17 ‘ Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker ?
18 Behold , he puts no trust in his servants . He charges his angels with error .
19 How much more those who dwell in houses of clay , whose foundation is in the dust , who are crushed before the moth !
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed . They perish forever without any regarding it .
21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them ? They die , and that without wisdom .’