< Job 4 >
1 Then responded Eliphaz the Temanite, and said: —
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 If one attempt a word unto thee, wilt thou be impatient? But, to restrain speech, who, can endure?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Lo! thou hast admonished many, and, slack hands, hast thou been wont to uphold:
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 Him that was stumbling, have thy words raised up, and, sinking knees, hast thou strengthened.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 But, now, it cometh upon thee, and thou despairest, It smiteth even thee, and thou art dismayed.
for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
6 Is not, thy reverence, thy confidence? And is not, thy hope, the very integrity of thy ways?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 Remember, I pray thee, who, being innocent, hath perished, or when, the upright, have been cut off.
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 So far as I have seen, They who plow for iniquity and sow misery, reap the same:
like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
9 By the blast of GOD, they perish, And, by the breath of his nostrils, are they consumed:
from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
10 [Notwithstanding] the roaring of the lion, and the noise of the howling lion, yet, the teeth of the fierce lions, are broken:
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 The strong lion perishing for lack of prey, Even the whelps of the lioness, are scattered.
lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
12 But, unto me, something was brought by stealth, —and mine ear caught a whispering of the same:
and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
13 When there were thoughts, from visions of the night, —When deep sleep falleth upon men,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 Dread, came upon me, and trembling, The multitude of my bones, it put in dread:
dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
15 Then, a spirit, over my face, floated along, The hair of my flesh bristled-up:
and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
16 It stood still, but I could not distinguish its appearance, I looked, but there was no form before mine eyes, —A whispering voice, I heard: —
to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
17 Shall, mortal man, be more just than GOD? Or 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 Lo! in his own servants, he trusteth not, and, his own messengers, he chargeth with error:
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 the dwellers in houses of clay, which, in the dust, have their foundation, which are crushed sooner than a moth:
also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
20 Betwixt morning and evening, are they broken in pieces, With none to save, they utterly perish:
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 Is not their tent-rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom