Job 4

Translated from the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Tap a verse to see why it reads as it does. Tap a small letter to read its footnote.

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Eliphaz answers: who that was innocent ever perished?

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: ²If someone dares to say a word to you, will you lose patience? \q Yet who can keep from speaking? ³Think how you have taught many \q and strengthened hands that hung limp. ⁴Your words have lifted up those who stumbled, \q and you have made firm the knees that were giving way. ⁵But now it has come to you, and you lose patience; \q it strikes you, and you are terrified. ⁶Is not your fear of God your confidence, \q and the integrity of your ways your hope? ⁷Think back now: who that was innocent has ever perished? \q Where have the upright been wiped out? ⁸As I have seen, those who plow evil \q and sow trouble harvest the same. ⁹At the breath of God they perish; \q by the blast of his anger they are finished. ¹⁰The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, \q but the teeth of the young lions are broken. ¹¹The strong lion dies for lack of prey, \q and the lioness’s cubs are scattered. ¹²A word was brought to me in secret; \q my ear caught only a whisper of it. ¹³amid troubled thoughts from visions in the night, \q when deep sleep falls on people, ¹⁴fear and trembling came upon me \q and made all my bones shake. ¹⁵Then a spirit glided past my face; \q the hair on my body stood on end. ¹⁶It stood still, but I could not make out what it looked like. \q A form was before my eyes; \q there was silence, and then I heard a voice: ¹⁷Can a mortal be righteous before God? \q Can anyone be pure before their Maker? ¹⁸Even in his servants he puts no trust, \q and he charges his angels with error, ¹⁹how much more those who live in houses of clay, \q whose foundation is in the dust, \q who are crushed like a moth! ²⁰Between morning and evening they are shattered; \q unnoticed, they perish forever. ²¹Is not the cord of their tent pulled up? \q They die, and without wisdom.