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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 4 Coverdale Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Coverdale Bible</a> > Job 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/3.htm" 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">Coverdale Bible of 1535</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then answered Eliphas of Theman and sayde vnto him:<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Yf we begynne to comon with the, peradueture thou wilt be myscontent, but who can witholde himself from speakynge?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Beholde, thou hast bene a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weery hondes.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thy wordes haue set vp those that were fallen, thou hast refresshed the weake knees.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But now that the plage is come vpon the, thou shreckest awaye: now that it hath touched thyself, thou art faint harted.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Where is now thy feare of God, thy stedfastnesse, thy pacience, and the perfectnesse of thy life?<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Considre (I praye the) who euer peryshed, beynge an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As for those that plowe wickednesse (as I haue sene myself) and sowe myschefe, they reape ye same.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For whe God bloweth vpon them, they perysh, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The roaringe of the lyon, the cryenge off the lyonesse, & ye teth off ye lyos whelpes are broke.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The greate lyon perysheth, because he ca get no pray and the lyons whelpes are scatred abrode.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>There is spoken vnto me a thynge in councell, which hath geuen a terrible sounde in myne eare,<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>with a vision in the night, when men are fallen a slepe.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Soch feare and drede came vpo me, that all my bones shoke.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And when the wynde passed ouer by me, the hayres of my flesh stode vp.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then stode there one before me, whose face I knewe not: an ymage there was, and the wether was still, so that I herde this voyce:<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Maye a man be iustified before God? Maye there eny man be iudged to be clene, by reason of his owne workes?<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Beholde, he hath founde vnfaythfulnesse amonge his owne seruauntes, and proude disobedience amonge his angels.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How moch more the shal they (that dwell in houses of claye, whose foundacion is but earth) be moth eaten?<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They shalbe destroyed from the mornynge vnto the euenynge: yee they shall perish, or euer they be awarre:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and be taken awaye so clene, that none of the shall remayne, but be deed, or euer they be awarre off it.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Coverdale Bible of 1535<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>