< Job 4 >

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
And he answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he said.
2 If anyone tries to speak with you, will you be impatient? But who can stop himself from speaking?
¿ Did someone attempt a word to you will you be impatient? and to restrain words who? is he able.
3 See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened weak hands.
There! you have instructed many [people] and hands slack you strengthened.
4 Your words have supported him who was falling; you have made feeble knees firm.
[the] stumbling They raised! words your and knees bending you strengthened.
5 But now trouble has come to you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are troubled.
For now - it comes to you and you have become impatient it reaches to you and you have become dismayed.
6 Is not your fear your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
¿ Not [is] fear your confidence your hope your and [the] integrity of ways your.
7 Think about this, please: Who has ever perished when innocent? Or when were the upright people ever cut off?
Remember please who? that innocent did he perish and where? upright [people] were they destroyed.
8 According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap it.
Just as I have seen plowers of wickedness and sowers of mischief they harvest it.
9 By the breath of God they perish; by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
From [the] breath of God they perish and from [the] breath of anger his they come to an end.
10 The roaring of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions—they are broken.
[the] roaring of A lion and [the] sound of a lion and [the] teeth of young lions they are broken out.
11 The old lion perishes for lack of victims; the cubs of the lioness are scattered everywhere.
A lion [is] perishing because not prey and [the] young of a lion they are scattered.
12 Now a certain matter was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper about it.
And to me a word it was brought secretly and it received ear my a whisper of it.
13 Then came thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on people.
In disquieting thoughts from visions of [the] night when falls deep sleep on people.
14 It was at night when fear and trembling came upon me, and all my bones shook.
Fear it happened to me and trembling and [the] multitude of bones my it caused to tremble.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face, and the hair of my flesh stood up.
And a wind over face my it passed over it made bristle [the] hair of flesh my.
16 The spirit stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice that said,
It stood still - and not I recognized appearance its a form [was] to before eyes my a whisper and a voice I heard.
17 “Can a mortal man be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?
¿ A person from God will he be righteous or? from maker his will he be pure a man.
18 See, if God puts no trust in his servants; if he accuses his angels of folly,
There! in servants his not he trusts and against messengers his he charges error.
19 how much more is this true of those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed sooner than a moth?
Also - [those who] dwell of houses of clay which [is] in the dust foundation their people crush them before a moth.
20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish forever without anyone noticing them.
From morning to evening they are crushed to pieces because not [one who] sets to perpetuity they perish.
21 Are not their tent cords plucked up among them? They die; they die without wisdom.
¿ Not has it been pulled up tent cord their in them will they die? and not with wisdom.

< Job 4 >