4Job 4

The First Dialogue / Eliphaz

2Job, will you be annoyed if I speak? I can't keep quiet any longer.Select Job 4:2

3You have taught many people and given strength to feeble hands.Select Job 4:3

4When someone stumbled, weak and tired, your words encouraged him to stand.Select Job 4:4

5Now it's your turn to be in trouble, and you are too stunned to face it.Select Job 4:5

6You worshiped God, and your life was blameless; and so you should have confidence and hope.Select Job 4:6

7Think back now. Name a single case where someone righteous met with disaster.Select Job 4:7

8I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.Select Job 4:8

9Like a storm, God destroys them in his anger.Select Job 4:9

10The wicked roar and growl like lions, but God silences them and breaks their teeth.Select Job 4:10

11Like lions with nothing to kill and eat, they die, and all their children are scattered.Select Job 4:11

12Once a message came quietly, so quietly I could hardly hear it.Select Job 4:12

13Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.Select Job 4:13

14I trembled and shuddered; my whole body shook with fear.Select Job 4:14

15A light breeze touched my face, and my skin crawled with fright.Select Job 4:15

16I could see something standing there; I stared, but couldn't tell what it was. Then I heard a voice out of the silence:Select Job 4:16

17“Can anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?Select Job 4:17

18God does not trust his heavenly servants; he finds fault even with his angels.Select Job 4:18

19Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?Select Job 4:19

20We may be alive in the morning, but die unnoticed before evening comes.Select Job 4:20

21All that we have is taken away; we die, still lacking wisdom.”Select Job 4:21