Job 4:1-21 - Eliphaz's First Response To Job

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, ² "[If] someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? But who can refrain from speaking? ³ Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. ⁴ Your words have raised up [the one who] stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way. ⁵ But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified. ⁶ [Is] not your fear [in God] your confidence? [Is not] your hope even the integrity of your ways? ⁷ "{Think} now, who has perished [who is] innocent? Or where [are] the upright destroyed? ⁸ [Just] as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it. ⁹ By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they come to an end. ¹⁰ [The] roar of [the] lion and [the] voice of a lion in its prime, and [the] teeth of [the] young lions are broken. ¹¹ [The] lion is perishing without prey, and [the] lion's whelps are scattered.

¹² "And a word came stealing to me, and my ear received [the] whisper from it. ¹³ Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at [the] falling of deep sleep on men, ¹⁴ dread met me, and trembling, and it made many of my bones shake. ¹⁵ And a spirit glided before my face; the hair of my flesh bristled. ¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form [was] {before} my eyes; [there was] a hush, and I heard a voice: ¹⁷ 'Can a human being 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 dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth. ²⁰ {Between morning and evening} they are destroyed; without [anyone] regarding [it] they perish forever. ²¹ [Is] not their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, but not in wisdom.'