< Job 4 >
1 But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed.
for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
6 Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,
like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
9 perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.
from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away.
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered.
lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
12 Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.
and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
13 In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified.
dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
15 And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up.
and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
16 There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze.
to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
17 Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?
human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
18 Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection.
look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
19 How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?
also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
20 From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom.
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom