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title="Job 3">◄</a> Job 4 <a href="../job/5.htm" title="Job 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?</span><br /><span class="indent">Yet who can keep from speaking?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, you have instructed many,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you have strengthened the weak hands.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you have made firm the feeble knees.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;</span><br /><span class="indent">it touches you, and you are dismayed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is not your fear of God<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew lacks of God">a</a></sup></span> your confidence,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the integrity of your ways your hope?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished?</span><br /><span class="indent">Or where were the upright cut off?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">As I have seen, those who plow iniquity</span><br /><span class="indent">and sow trouble reap the same.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">By the breath of God they perish,</span><br /><span class="indent">and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,</span><br /><span class="indent">the teeth of the young lions are broken.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Now a word was brought to me stealthily;</span><br /><span class="indent">my ear received the whisper of it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Amid thoughts from visions of the night,</span><br /><span class="indent">when deep sleep falls on men,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">dread came upon me, and trembling,</span><br /><span class="indent">which made all my bones shake.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">A spirit glided past my face;</span><br /><span class="indent">the hair of my flesh stood up.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">It stood still,</span><br /><span class="indent">but I could not discern its appearance.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">A form was before my eyes;</span><br /><span class="indent">there was silence, then I heard a voice:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">‘Can mortal man be in the right before<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or more than; twice in this verse">b</a></sup></span> God?</span><br /><span class="indent">Can a man be pure before his Maker?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Even in his servants he puts no trust,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his angels he charges with error;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">how much more those who dwell in houses of clay,</span><br /><span class="indent">whose foundation is in the dust,</span><br /><span class="indent">who are crushed like<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or before">c</a></sup></span> the moth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces;</span><br /><span class="indent">they perish forever without anyone regarding it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them,</span><br /><span class="indent">do they not die, and that without wisdom?’</span></p><A 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