Job 4

1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say

Then Eliphaz the Thaemanite answered and said,

2 to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able

Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

3 behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen

For whereas thou hast instructed many, and hast strengthened the hands of the weak one,

4 to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen

and hast supported the failing with words, and hast imparted courage to feeble knees.

5 for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay

Yet now [that] pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.

6 not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your

Is not thy fear [founded] in folly, thy hope also, and the mischief of thy way?

7 to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide

Remember then who has perished, being pure? or when were the true-hearted utterly destroyed?

8 like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him

Accordingly as I have seen men ploughing barren places, and they that sow them will reap sorrows for themselves.

9 from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy

They shall perish by the command of the Lord, and shall be utterly consumed by the breath of his wrath.

10 roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break

The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.

11 lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate

The old lion has perished for want of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.

12 and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him

But if there had been any truth in thy words, none of these evils would have befallen thee. Shall not mine ear receive excellent [revelations] from him?

13 in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human

But [as when] terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,

14 dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread

horror and trembling seized me, and caused all my bones greatly to shake.

15 and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my

And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered.

16 to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear

I arose and perceived it not: I looked, and there, was no form before my eyes: but I only heard a breath and a voice, [saying],

17 human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man

What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?

18 look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error

Whereas he trust not in his servants, and perceives perverseness in his angels.

19 also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth

But [as for] them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, he smites them like a moth.

20 from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish

And from the morning to evening they no longer exist: they have perished, because they cannot help themselves.

21 not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom

For he blows upon them, and they are withered: they have perished for lack of wisdom.