Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
ASV
American Standard Version
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Then answered
Eliphaz the Temanite ,
and
said,
“
If one ventures
a
word
with you
, will
you
be wearied
? Yet
who can keep
from speaking?
If one assay
to
commune
with thee
, wilt
thou
be grieved
? But
who can withhold
himself
from speaking?
Surely
you
have
instructed many, and have
strengthened their
feeble
hands.
Behold,
thou
hast
instructed many, And thou
hast
strengthened the
weak
hands.
Your
words have steadied
those
who
stumbled;
you
have
braced
the knees that
were
buckling
.
Thy
words have upholden
him
that
was
falling,
And
thou
hast
made
firm
the feeble
knees.
But now trouble
has
come upon
you
, and you
are
weary.
It strikes
you
, and you
are
dismayed
.
But now it
is
come unto
thee
, and thou
faintest;
It toucheth
thee
, and thou
art
troubled
.
Is your
reverence
not your
confidence, and the uprightness
of your
ways your
hope?
Is not thy
fear
`of
God'
thy
confidence, `
And '
the integrity
of thy
ways thy
hope?
Consider
now
, I plead:
Who, being innocent ,
has
ever
perished
? Or where have
the upright been
destroyed
?
Remember
, I pray
thee,
who `ever'
perished
, being innocent? Or where were
the upright cut
off
?
As I have observed
, those
who
plow iniquity and those
who
sow trouble reap the same.
According
as I have seen
, they
that
plow iniquity ,
And sow trouble ,
reap the same.
By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they
are consumed.
By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they
consumed.
The lion may
roar
, and the fierce lion may
growl
, yet
the teeth of the young lions are broken.
The roaring
of
the
lion, and the voice
of
the
fierce lion, And
the teeth of the young lions ,
are broken.
The old lion perishes
for lack of prey, and the cubs
of the lioness are scattered.
The old lion perisheth
for lack of prey, And the whelps
of the lioness are scattered abroad
.
Now a word
came
to me secretly;
my
ears
caught
a whisper of
it
.
Now a thing
was
secretly
brought
to me ,
And
mine
ear
received
a whisper thereof
.
In disquieting
visions in
the night, when deep sleep falls
on men,
In thoughts
from
the
visions of
the night, When deep sleep falleth
on men,
fear and
trembling
came over
me and made all my bones shudder
.
Fear came upon
me ,
and trembling,
Which
made all my bones to
shake
.
Then a spirit glided
past
my face ,
and
the hair on
my body
bristled
.
Then a spirit passed
before
my face ;
The hair of
my flesh
stood
up
.
It stood still, but I could not discern its
appearance; a form loomed
before my
eyes, and I heard a whispering
voice :
It stood still, but I could not discern the
appearance thereof
; A form was
before mine
eyes :
`There
was'
silence
, and I heard a voice ,
`saying',
‘Can
a
mortal be more righteous
than God ,
or
a man more pure than his Maker?
Shall
mortal man
be more just
than God ?
Shall
a man be
more pure than his Maker?
If
God
puts
no trust in His servants ,
and He
charges
His angels with error,
Behold,
he
putteth
no trust in his servants ;
And his angels he
chargeth
with folly:
how much more those
who
dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations
are
in the dust, who can
be
crushed like
a
moth!
How much more them
that
dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation
is
in the dust, Who are
crushed before
the
moth!
They are smashed
to
pieces
from
dawn
to
dusk;
unnoticed,
they perish forever
.
Betwixt
morning
and
evening
they are destroyed:
They perish for
ever
without
any
regarding
it
.
Are
not their tent cords
pulled
up ,
so
that
they die without wisdom ?’
Is
not their tent -cord
plucked
up within
them?
They die ,
and
that
without wisdom .
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