Job 4
1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 “Has one tried a word with you? You are weary! And who is able to keep in words?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Behold, you have instructed many, And feeble hands you make strong.
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 Your words raise up the stumbling one, And you strengthen bowing knees.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 But now, it comes to you, And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled.
for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
6 Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 Now remember, Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
9 From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger [are] consumed.
from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
10 The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness separate.
lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
12 And a thing is secretly brought to me, And my ear receives a little of it.
and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
13 In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 Fear has met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.
dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
15 And a spirit passes before my face, The hair of my flesh stands up;
and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
16 It stands, and I do not discern its aspect, A likeness [is] before my eyes, Silence! And I hear a voice:
to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
17 Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a man cleaner than his Maker?
human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
18 Behold, He puts no credence in His servants, Nor sets praise in His messengers.
look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
19 Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a 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 to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, they perish forever.
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
