Job 4
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
“If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4 to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5 for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7 to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
10 roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
15 and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
16 to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
17 human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
18 look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
19 also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
20 from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
