Job 4

¹But Eliphaz the Themanite answering, said:

²If we shall begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it grievously, but the word conceived who can hold?

³Behold thou hast taught many, and weary hands thou hast strengthened.

⁴Them that wavered thy words have confirmed, and trembling knees thou hast strengthened:

⁵But now a plague is come upon thee, & thou hast fainted: hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.

⁶Where is thy fear, thy strength, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?

⁷Remember I beseech thee, who ever being innocent hath perished? Or when have the just been destroyed?

⁸Yea rather I have seen them that work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,

⁹to have perished by the blast of God, and with the spirit of his wrath to have been consumed.

¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are bruised:

¹¹The tiger hath perished, because he had no prey, and the lions' whelps are destroyed.

¹²Moreover to me there was spoken a secret word, and as it were by stealth hath mine ear received the veins of the whispering thereof.

¹³In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,

¹⁴fear held me, and trembling, and all my bones were made sore afraid:

¹⁵And when the spirit passed in my presence, the hairs of my flesh stood upright.

¹⁶There stood one, whose countenance I knew not, an image before mine eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:

¹⁷What, shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

¹⁸Behold they that serve him are not stable, and in his Angels he found wickedness:

¹⁹How much more they that inhabit houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, shall be consumed as it were of the moth?

²⁰From morning until evening they shall be cut down: and because none understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

²¹And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.