Job 4
1 and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
2 to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
4 to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
5 for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
6 not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
7 to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
“Remember, now, 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 to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, 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. By the blast of his anger 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, 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 perishes for lack of prey. The cubs 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 thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.
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 falls on men,
14 dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones 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 couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then 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 puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
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 those who 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
Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
21 not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
