Job 4
1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
2 “Has one tried a word with you? You are weary! And who is able to keep in words?
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? but who can withholde himselfe from speaking?
3 Behold, you have instructed many, And feeble hands you make strong.
Behold, thou hast taught many, and hast strengthened the wearie hands.
4 Your words raise up the stumbling one, And you strengthen bowing knees.
Thy wordes haue confirmed him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the weake knees.
5 But now, it comes to you, And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled.
But now it is come vpon thee, and thou art grieued: it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
6 Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?
Is not this thy feare, thy confidence, thy pacience, and the vprightnesse of thy wayes?
7 Now remember, Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
Remember, I pray thee: who euer perished, being an innocent? or where were the vpright destroyed?
8 As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
As I haue seene, they that plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same.
9 From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger [are] consumed.
With the blast of God they perish, and with the breath of his nostrels are they cosumed.
10 The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.
The roaring of the Lion, and the voyce of the Lionesse, and the teeth of the Lions whelpes are broken.
11 An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness separate.
The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.
12 And a thing is secretly brought to me, And my ear receives a little of it.
But a thing was brought to me secretly, and mine eare hath receiued a litle thereof.
13 In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,
In the thoughtes of ye visions of the night, when sleepe falleth on men,
14 Fear has met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.
Feare came vpon me, and dread which made all my bones to tremble.
15 And a spirit passes before my face, The hair of my flesh stands up;
And the wind passed before me, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp.
16 It stands, and I do not discern its aspect, A likeness [is] before my eyes, Silence! And I hear a voice:
Then stoode one, and I knewe not his face: an image was before mine eyes, and in silence heard I a voyce, saying,
17 Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a man cleaner than his Maker?
Shall man be more iust then God? or shall a man be more pure then his maker?
18 Behold, He puts no credence in His servants, Nor sets praise in His messengers.
Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Seruants, and laid follie vpon his Angels.
19 Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth).
Howe much more in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which shalbe destroyed before the moth?
20 From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, they perish forever.
They be destroyed from the morning vnto the euening: they perish for euer, without regarde.
21 Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”
Doeth not their dignitie goe away with them? do they not die, and that without wisdom?
