< Job 4 >
1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: —
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 Hath one tried a word with thee? — Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto 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 thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope — the perfection of thy ways?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 As I have seen — ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!
like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
9 From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.
from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
10 The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.
lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
12 And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it.
and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
13 In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.
dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
15 And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;
and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
16 It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude [is] over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear:
to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
17 'Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?
human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
18 Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'
look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
19 Also — the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
20 From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom