< Job 4 >
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:
2 to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
“Has one tried a word with you? You are weary! And who is able to keep in words?
3 behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
Behold, you have instructed many, And feeble hands you make strong.
4 to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
Your words raise up the stumbling one, And you strengthen bowing knees.
5 for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
But now, it comes to you, And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled.
6 not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?
7 to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
Now remember, Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
8 like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
9 from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger [are] consumed.
10 roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.
11 lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness separate.
12 and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
And a thing is secretly brought to me, And my ear receives a little of it.
13 in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,
14 dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
Fear has met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.
15 and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
And a spirit passes before my face, The hair of my flesh stands up;
16 to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
It stands, and I do not discern its aspect, A likeness [is] before my eyes, Silence! And I hear a voice:
17 human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
Is mortal man more righteous than God? Is a man cleaner 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 puts no credence in His servants, Nor sets praise in His messengers.
19 also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth).
20 from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, they perish forever.
21 not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”