< Job 4 >

1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 “If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
6 Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 “Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 According to what I have seen, those who plough iniquity and sow trouble, 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 breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger 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, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness 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. 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 falls on men,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones 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 couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then 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 puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.
look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
19 How much more those who 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 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom

< Job 4 >