< Job 4 >
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 If we try to speak with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can restrain from speaking?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper of it.
and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
16 It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?
also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 Doth not their excellency which is in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom