Thematic Bible
Job 4:1 (show verse)
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
Job 4:2 (show verse)
"If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?
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Job 4:3 (show verse)
Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.
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Job 4:4 (show verse)
Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.
Job 4:5 (show verse)
But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.
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Job 4:6 (show verse)
Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?
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Job 4:7 (show verse)
Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?
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Job 4:8 (show verse)
Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
Job 4:9 (show verse)
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
Job 4:10 (show verse)
There is the roaring of the lion and the growling of the young lion, but the teeth of the young lions are broken.
Job 4:11 (show verse)
The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Job 4:12 (show verse)
"Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.
Job 4:13 (show verse)
In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
Job 4:14 (show verse)
a trembling gripped me -- and a terror! -- and made all my bones shake.
Job 4:15 (show verse)
Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.
Job 4:16 (show verse)
It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:
Job 4:17 (show verse)
"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
Job 4:18 (show verse)
If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,
Job 4:19 (show verse)
how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
Job 4:20 (show verse)
They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
Job 4:21 (show verse)
Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.