The Book of Job 4

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1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said ⚑

2 If we assay to commune with thee wilt thou be grieved but who can withhold himself from speaking ⚑

3 Behold thou hast instructed many and thou hast strengthened the weak hands ⚑

4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees ⚑

5 But now it is come upon thee and thou faintest it toucheth thee and thou art troubled ⚑

6 Is not this thy fear thy confidence thy hope and the uprightness of thy ways ⚑

7 Remember I pray thee who ever perished being innocent or where were the righteous cut off ⚑

8 Even as I have seen they that plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same ⚑

9 By the blast of God they perish and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed ⚑

10 The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion and the teeth of the young lions are broken ⚑

11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad ⚑

12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me and mine ear received a little thereof ⚑

13 In thoughts from the visions of the night when deep sleep falleth on men ⚑

14 Fear came upon me and trembling which made all my bones to shake ⚑

15 Then a spirit passed before my face the hair of my flesh stood up ⚑

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 ⚑

17 Shall mortal man be more just than God shall a man be more pure than his maker ⚑

18 Behold he put no trust in his servants and his angels he charged with folly ⚑

19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay whose foundation is in the dust which are crushed before the moth ⚑

20 They are destroyed from morning to evening they perish for ever without any regarding it ⚑

21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away they die even without wisdom ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain