Old Testament · BSB
Job 4
Berean Standard Bible · 21 verses
- Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
- Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
- Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
- But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
- Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
- Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
- By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
- The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
- The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
- Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
- In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
- fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
- Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
- It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
- ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
- how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
- Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’