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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Eliphaz’s First Response to Job</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Will you be patient and let me say a word?</p><p class="line2">For who could keep from speaking out?</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“In the past you have encouraged many people;</p><p class="line2">you have strengthened those who were weak.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Your words have supported those who were falling;</p><p class="line2">you encouraged those with shaky knees.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart.</p><p class="line2">You are terrified when it touches you.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence?</p><p class="line2">Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Stop and think! Do the innocent die?</p><p class="line2">When have the upright been destroyed?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>My experience shows that those who plant trouble</p><p class="line2">and cultivate evil will harvest the same.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>A breath from God destroys them.</p><p class="line2">They vanish in a blast of his anger.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The lion roars and the wildcat snarls,</p><p class="line2">but the teeth of strong lions will be broken.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey,</p><p class="line2">and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“This truth was given to me in secret,</p><p class="line2">as though whispered in my ear.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>It came to me in a disturbing vision at night,</p><p class="line2">when people are in a deep sleep.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Fear gripped me,</p><p class="line2">and my bones trembled.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>A spirit<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> swept past my face,</p><p class="line2">and my hair stood on end.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The spirit stopped, but I couldn’t see its shape.</p><p class="line2">There was a form before my eyes.</p><p class="line1">In the silence I heard a voice say,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>‘Can a mortal be innocent before God?</p><p class="line2">Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“If God does not trust his own angels</p><p class="line2">and has charged his messengers with foolishness,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>how much less will he trust people made of clay!</p><p class="line2">They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>They are alive in the morning but dead by evening,</p><p class="line2">gone forever without a trace.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Their tent-cords are pulled and the tent collapses,</p><p class="line2">and they die in ignorance.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:15a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">wind;</span><span class="ft"> also in 4:16.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:15b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">its wind sent shivers up my spine.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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