Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Then
Eliphaz the Temanite replied
:
And
Eliphaz the Temanite answereth
and
saith
: --
“If
one ventures
a word with you,
will
you
be
wearied
? Yet
who
can
keep from
speaking
?
Hath
one tried
a word with thee
? --
Thou
art
weary!
And
to
keep in
words
who
is
able
?
Surely
you
have
instructed many, and have
strengthened
their
feeble hands.
Lo,
thou
hast
instructed many, And feeble hands thou
makest
strong
.
Your
words
have
steadied
those
who
stumbled;
you
have
braced
the knees that
were
buckling
.
The stumbling
one
do
thy
words
raise
up,
And
bowing
knees thou
dost
strengthen
.
But now trouble
has
come
upon
you
, and you
are
weary .
It strikes
you
, and you
are
dismayed
.
But now, it
cometh
in
unto
thee,
And thou
art
weary ;
It striketh
unto
thee
, and thou
art
troubled
.
Is your
reverence
not your
confidence ,
and
the uprightness
of your
ways your
hope
?
Is not thy
reverence
thy
confidence ?
Thy
hope
--
the perfection
of thy
ways?
Consider
now
, I plead:
Who, being innocent, has
ever
perished? Or
where have the upright been destroyed
?
Remember
, I pray
thee,
Who, being innocent, hath
perished? And
where have the upright been cut
off
?
As I have observed,
those
who
plow
iniquity and those
who
sow
trouble
reap the
same.
As I have seen
--
ploughers
of
iniquity ,
And sowers
of
misery,
reap it!
By
the breath of God they perish, and by
the blast
of His anger they
are
consumed.
From
the breath of God they perish, And from
the spirit
of His anger consumed.
The lion may
roar
, and the fierce lion may
growl
, yet
the
teeth of the
young lions are
broken.
The roaring
of
a
lion, And the voice
of
a
fierce lion, And
teeth of young lions have
been
broken.
The
old lion perishes
for
lack
of
prey, and the cubs
of the lioness are
scattered
.
An
old lion is
perishing
without
prey, And the whelps
of the lioness do
separate
.
Now
a
word
came
to
me secretly ;
my
ears
caught
a whisper
of it.
And
unto
me a
thing
is
secretly brought,
And
receive
doth
mine
ear
a little
of it.
In disquieting
visions in
the night, when
deep sleep falls
on men,
In thoughts
from
visions of
the night, In
the
falling
of
deep sleep on men,
fear and trembling came
over
me
and made
all
my bones shudder
.
Fear hath
met
me,
and trembling ,
And the
multitude
of
my bones caused
to
fear
.
Then
a spirit glided
past
my face, and
the hair on
my body
bristled.
And
a spirit before
my face doth
pass
, Stand
up
doth
the hair of
my flesh;
It stood
still
, but
I could
not
discern its appearance;
a form
loomed
before
my
eyes, and I
heard
a whispering
voice:
It standeth
, and
I discern not
its aspect,
A similitude
`is'
over-against
mine
eyes, Silence!
and a voice I
hear
:
‘Can
a
mortal be
more
righteous
than God ,
or
a
man
more pure
than his Maker?
`Is
mortal man
than God more righteous?
Than his Maker is
a
man
cleaner
?
If
God
puts
no
trust
in His servants ,
and
He charges
His
angels
with
error
,
Lo,
in His servants He putteth
no
credence
, Nor
in
His
messengers
setteth
praise.'
how
much
more
those
who
dwell
in
houses of clay, whose foundations
are
in the dust, who
can
be
crushed
like
a moth !
Also
--
the
inhabitants
of
houses of clay, (
Whose foundation
`is'
in the dust, They
bruise
them
before
a moth .)
They
are
smashed
to
pieces
from dawn
to dusk;
unnoticed
, they perish forever
.
From morning
to evening
are
beaten
down
, Without
any
regarding,
for
ever
they perish.
Are
not their tent
cords
pulled
up,
so
that
they die without
wisdom ?’
Hath
not their excellency
been
removed
with
them?
They die ,
and
not
in
wisdom !
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