B. Eliphaz's First Speech 4:1-5:27
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.