Eliphaz rebukes Job
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Job 4:1: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
Job 4:2: If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
Job 4:3: Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
Job 4:4: Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Job 4:5: But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Job 4:6: Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Job 4:7: Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Job 4:8: Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 4:9: By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Job 4:10: The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Job 4:11: The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
Job 4:12: Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
Job 4:13: In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Job 4:14: Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
Job 4:15: Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
Job 4:16: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
Job 4:17: Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 4:18: Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Job 4:19: How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
Job 4:20: They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
Job 4:21: Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
Job 5:1: Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
Job 5:2: For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 5:3: I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5:4: His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Job 5:5: Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 5:6: Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 5:7: Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:8: I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Job 5:9: Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Job 5:10: Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
Job 5:11: To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Job 5:12: He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13: He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 5:14: They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Job 5:15: But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16: So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job 5:17: Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 5:18: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Job 5:19: He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job 5:20: In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 5:21: Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job 5:22: At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 5:23: For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Job 5:24: And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
Job 5:25: Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26: Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job 5:27: Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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