Job 4

VIN^{(i) 1} Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, ² "If someone tries to talk to you, will you become impatient? But who can keep from talking? ³ Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. ⁴ Your words have supported him who was falling, you have strengthened the feeble knees. ⁵ But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified. ⁶ Is not your pious fear your confidence, And your flawless ways your expectation? ⁷ Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off? ⁸ Just as I have seen, those who plow lawlessness And those who sow misery are harvesting it. ⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. ¹⁰ The lion roareth, and the fierce lion howleth - yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. ¹¹ The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered. ¹² Now a thing was secretly brought to me; my ear received a whisper of it. ¹³ In imaginations of visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, ¹⁴ fear and trembling met me, and made my many bones dread. ¹⁵ A spirit glided past me and made the hair on my skin to bristle. ¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not tell the form of it. An image was before my eyes; silence; then I heard a voice, ¹⁷ Can a mortal be more righteous than God? or can a man be more pure than his Maker? ¹⁸ Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error. ¹⁹ How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth! ²⁰ Between morning and evening they are destroyed; without anyone regarding it they perish forever. ²¹ "Have the ropes of their tent been loosened? Will they die without wisdom?"