Job Chapter 4

4 : 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

4 : 2 If we assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

4 : 3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

4 : 4 Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees.

4 : 5 But now it is come on you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled.

4 : 6 Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?

4 : 7 Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

4 : 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

4 : 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

4 : 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

4 : 11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

4 : 12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little thereof.

4 : 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

4 : 14 Fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

4 : 15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

4 : 16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

4 : 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

4 : 18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

4 : 19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

4 : 20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

4 : 21 Does not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.