Job 4

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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.
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