< Job 4 >
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
[If] we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? 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 faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
6 not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
[Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness 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 righteous cut off?
8 like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9 from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10 roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and 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 stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
12 and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little 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, which made all my bones to shake.
15 and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood 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 form thereof: an image [was] before mine eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
17 human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be 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
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged 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 less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?
20 from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
They are destroyed from morning to evening: 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
Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.