Job 4
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?
If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
3 Behold, thou hast taught many, and hast strengthened the wearie hands.
Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:
4 Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.
Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
5 But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
6 Is not this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?
Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?
7 Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
8 As I haue seene, they that plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same.
On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
9 With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrels are they cosumed.
Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
10 The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, and the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken:
11 The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.
The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
12 But a thing was brought to me secretly, and mine eare hath receiued a litle thereof.
Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper.
13 In the thoughtes of ye visions of the night, when sleepe falleth on men,
In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
14 Feare came vpon me, and dread which made all my bones to tremble.
Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
15 And the wind passed before me, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp.
And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
16 Then stoode one, and I knewe not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voyce, saying,
There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:
17 Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?
Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18 Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his Angels.
Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:
19 Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?
How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
20 They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.
From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.
21 Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, and that without wisdom?
And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.
