Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,
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Job 4
21 aligned verses; 21 with wording or punctuation differences .
Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
“
If one
ventures a
word
with you, will you be wearied
? Yet
who can keep
from speaking?
"
If someone
ventures to
talk
with you, will you be grieved
? But
who can withhold
himself
from speaking?
Surely
you have instructed many, and
have strengthened their
feeble
hands.
Behold,
you have instructed many, You
have strengthened the
weak
hands.
Your words have steadied
those
who stumbled;
you have braced
the knees that
were
buckling
.
Your words have supported
him
who was
falling,
You have 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 to
you, and you faint;
It touches
you, and you are troubled
.
Is
your reverence
not
your confidence, and
the uprightness
of your ways your hope?
Isn't
your piety
your confidence, The integrity
of your ways your hope?
Consider
now, I
plead:
Who
, being innocent ,
has
ever
perished
? Or where have
the upright been
destroyed
?
"Remember,
now, whoever
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
to
what
I have seen
, those who 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, 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, 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 perishes for lack of prey, The cubs 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 ,
My ear
received
a whisper of it.
In disquieting
visions in
the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
In thoughts
from
the
visions of
the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
fear and
trembling
came over
me and made all my bones shudder
.
Fear came on
me ,
and trembling,
Which
made all my bones 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 couldn't
discern the
appearance of
it
; A form was
before my eyes .
Silence
, then
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
puts no trust in his servants .
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!
How much more ,
those who 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.
Between
morning
and
evening
they are destroyed.
They perish forever without
any
regarding
it
.
Are
not
their tent cords
pulled
up ,
so
that
they die without wisdom ?’
Isn't
their tent -cord
plucked
up within
them?
They die ,
and
that
without wisdom .'
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