{"book":"Job","slug":"job","ch":4,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Job","prev":"job/3","next":"job/5","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:","f":[],"h":"Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"“ If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"“ If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Yet who can keep from speaking?"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":3,"t":"Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Surely you have instructed many,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and have strengthened their feeble hands."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Your words have steadied those who stumbled;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"you have braced the knees that were buckling."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"But now [trouble] has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"But now [trouble] has come upon you, and you are weary."},{"style":"indent2","t":"It strikes you, and you are dismayed."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":6,"t":"Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Is your reverence not your confidence,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the uprightness of your ways your hope?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Consider now, I plead:"},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Who, being innocent, has ever perished?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Or where have the upright been destroyed?"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":8,"t":"As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"As I have observed, those who plow iniquity"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and those who sow trouble reap the same."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":9,"t":"By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"By the breath of God they perish,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and by the blast of His anger they are consumed."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":10,"t":"The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"yet the teeth of the young lions are broken."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The old lion perishes for lack of prey,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the cubs of the lioness are scattered."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":12,"t":"Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Now a word came to me secretly;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"my ears caught a whisper of it."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":13,"t":"In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"In disquieting visions in the night,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"when deep sleep falls on men,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"fear and trembling came over me"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and made all my bones shudder."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":15,"t":"Then a spirit glided past my face, [and] the hair on my body bristled.","f":["Or a wind"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Then a spirit glided past my face,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[and] the hair on my body bristled."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":16,"t":"It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"It stood still,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"but I could not discern its appearance;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"a form loomed before my eyes,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and I heard a whispering voice:"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":17,"t":"‘ {Can} a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"‘ {Can} a mortal be more righteous than God,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"or a man more pure than his Maker?"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":18,"t":"If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"If God puts no trust in His servants,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and He charges His angels with error,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":19,"t":"how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"how much more those who dwell in houses of clay,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"whose foundations are in the dust,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"who can be crushed like a moth!"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":20,"t":"They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"unnoticed, they perish forever."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":21,"t":"Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’[’’]","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Are not their tent cords pulled up,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"so that they die without wisdom?’[’’]"}],"style":"indent1"}]}