Job 4
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
Then Eliphaz, from Teman, replied to Job. He said,
2 to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
“Will you please let me say something to you? I am not [RHQ] able to remain silent [any longer].
3 behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
In the past, you have instructed/taught many people, and you have encouraged those who were weak.
4 to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
By what you said, you have helped those who (needed spiritual help/almost quit trusting in God) [MET], and you have enabled them to become spiritually strong again [MET].
5 for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
But now, when you experience disasters, you become discouraged. The disasters hit you, and you are stunned.
6 not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
You revere God; (does that not cause you to trust [in him]?/that should cause you to trust [in him].) [RHQ] If you were guiltless, you would [RHQ] be confident that [God] would not [have allowed] these disasters [to] happen to you!
7 to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
Think about this: Do innocent people die [while they are still young] [RHQ]? Does God get rid of godly people [RHQ]? [No!]
8 like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
What I have experienced is this: [Just as] [MET] farmers who plant bad [seeds] do not harvest good [crops], [just as those who start] trouble for others, later bring trouble on themselves.
9 from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
They die when God angrily blows his breath on them, when he is very angry with them.
10 roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
[Even though wicked people may be very powerful like] young lions, [God] will get rid of them [MET].
11 lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
[They will die like] fierce lions [that] starve to death when there are no animals that they can kill and eat, and [their children will be separated from each other like] young lions separate from each other [to find food].”
12 and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
“I heard a message that someone came and whispered to me.
13 in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
He spoke to me at night when I was having a bad dream that disturbed/frightened me while I was fast asleep.
14 dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
It caused me to be afraid and tremble; it caused all my bones to shake.
15 and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
A ghost glided past my face and caused the hair on [on the back of] my neck to stand straight up.
16 to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
It stopped, but I could not see what form it had. But [I could sense that] there was some being in front of me, and it said in a quiet voice,
17 human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
‘(Does God consider anyone to be righteous?/No human beings can be righteous in God’s sight!) [RHQ] (Their creator cannot consider them to be pure./Can their creator consider them to be pure?) [RHQ]
18 look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
God cannot be sure that his own angels [will always do what is right]; he declares that some of them have done what is wrong.
19 also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
So he certainly cannot trust human beings who were made from dust and clay, who are crushed as easily as moths are crushed!
20 from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
People are sometimes well in the morning, but in the evening they are dead. They are gone forever and do not even know it (OR, and no one pays any attention to it).
21 not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
They are like [MET] tents that collapse [suddenly]: They die [suddenly] before they become wise.’”
