< Job 4 >
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
Then answered Eliphaz the Themanite, and said,
2 to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
If we essay to address a word to thee, wilt thou be wearied? yet who is able to refrain from speaking?
3 behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
Behold, thou hast [ere this] corrected many, and weak hands thou wast wont to strengthen.
4 to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
Him that stumbled thy words used to uphold, and to sinking knees thou gavest vigor.
5 for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
Yet now, when it cometh to thee, thou art wearied: it toucheth even thee, and thou art terrified.
6 not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
Is not then thy fear of God still thy confidence, thy hope equal to 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 righteous destroyed?
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, that those who plough wrong-doing, and sow trouble, have to reap the same.
9 from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
Before the breathing of God they perish, and before the breath of his nostrils they come to their end.
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 whelps of the lioness have to scatter themselves abroad.
12 and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
But to me a word came by stealth, and my ear took in a scarcely perceptible whisper thereof.
13 in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
In intense thoughts out of visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men:
14 dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
Dread came over me, with trembling, and it caused all my bones to shudder.
15 and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
Then flitted a spirit past before my face; the hair of my body 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 recognize its form; a figure was before my eyes, a slight whisper, then a [louder] voice I heard, saying,
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 can 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, in his servants he putteth no trust, 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 less in those that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed till they come to be eaten by the moth?
20 from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
From morning to evening are they broken to pieces: without laying it [to heart] they perish for ever.
21 not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
Behold, their excellency which is in them is torn away: they die, and this without wisdom.