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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 American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch22004" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn22004" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Eliphaz’s First Speech.</span> <span id="v22004001" class="ver">1</span>Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v22004002" class="ver">2</span>If someone attempts a word with you, would you mind?</p> <p class="sl1">How can anyone refrain from speaking?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004003" class="ver">3</span>Look, you have instructed many,</p> <p class="sl1">and made firm their feeble hands.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004004" class="ver">4</span>Your words have upheld the stumbler;</p> <p class="sl1">you have strengthened faltering knees.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004005" class="ver">5</span>But now that it comes to you, you are impatient;</p> <p class="sl1">when it touches you, you are dismayed.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004006" class="ver">6</span>Is not your piety a source of confidence,</p> <p class="sl1">and your integrity of life your hope?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004007" class="ver">7</span>Reflect now, what innocent person perishes?<a id="ren22004007-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22004007-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl1">Where are the upright destroyed?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004008" class="ver">8</span>As I see it, those who plow mischief</p> <p class="sl1">and sow trouble will reap them.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004009" class="ver">9</span>By the breath of God they perish,<a id="ren22004009-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22004009-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl1">and by the blast of his wrath they are consumed.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004010" class="ver">10</span>Though the lion<a id="rfn22004010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22004010-1">*</a> roars, though the king of beasts cries out,</p> <p class="sl1">yet the teeth of the young lions are broken;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004011" class="ver">11</span>The old lion perishes for lack of prey,</p> <p class="sl1">and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004012" class="ver">12</span>A word was stealthily brought to me,<a id="rfn22004012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn22004012-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">my ear caught a whisper of it.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004013" class="ver">13</span>In my thoughts during visions of the night,<a id="ren22004013-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22004013-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl1">when deep sleep falls on mortals,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004014" class="ver">14</span>Fear came upon me, and shuddering,</p> <p class="sl1">that terrified me to the bone.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004015" class="ver">15</span>Then a spirit passed before me,</p> <p class="sl1">and the hair of my body stood on end.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004016" class="ver">16</span>It paused, but its likeness I could not recognize;</p> <p class="sl1">a figure was before my eyes,</p> <p class="sl1">in silence I heard a voice:<a id="ren22004016-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22004016-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004017" class="ver">17</span>“Can anyone be more in the right than God?<a id="ren22004017-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22004017-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">Can mortals be more blameless than their Maker?</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004018" class="ver">18</span>Look, he puts no trust in his servants,<a id="ren22004018-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en22004018-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl1">and even with his messengers he finds fault.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004019" class="ver">19</span>How much more with those who dwell in houses of clay,</p> <p class="sl1">whose foundation is in the dust,</p> <p class="sl1">who are crushed more easily than a moth!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004020" class="ver">20</span>Morning or evening they may be shattered;</p> <p class="sl1">unnoticed, they perish forever.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v22004021" class="ver">21</span>The pegs of their tent are plucked up;</p> <p class="sl1">they die without knowing wisdom.”</p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references 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