< Job 4 >
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:
2 to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
If one venture a word unto thee, wilt thou be weary? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4 to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
5 for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
But now it is come upon thee, and thou art weary; it toucheth thee, and thou art affrighted.
6 not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, and thy hope the integrity of thy ways?
7 to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
8 like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow mischief, 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 are they consumed.
10 roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth — 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 perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
12 and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
Now a word was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.
13 in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
14 dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
Fear came upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were made to shake.
15 and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
Then a spirit passed before my face, that made the hair of my flesh to stand up.
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 the appearance thereof; a form was before mine eyes; I heard a still voice:
17 human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
'Shall mortal man be just before God? Shall a man be pure before his Maker?
18 look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
Behold, He putteth no trust in His servants, and His angels He chargeth with folly;
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 them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
20 from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
Betwixt morning and evening they are shattered; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'