4Job 4

CHAP. IIII. / 1 Eliphaz reprooueth Iob for want of religion. He teacheth Gods iudgements to bee not for the righteous, but for the wicked. 12 His fearefull vision, to humble the excellencie of Creatur

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,Select Job 4:1

2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? But who can withhold himselfe from speaking?Select Job 4:2

3Beholde, Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weake hands.Select Job 4:3

4Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.Select Job 4:4

5But now it is come vpon thee, and thou faintest, it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.Select Job 4:5

6Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?Select Job 4:6

7Remember, I pray thee, who euer perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?Select Job 4:7

8Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same.Select Job 4:8

9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.Select Job 4:9

10The roaring of the Lyon, and the voice of the fierce Lyon, and the teeth of the yong Lyons are broken.Select Job 4:10

11The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.Select Job 4:11

12Nowe a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine eare receiued a litle thereof.Select Job 4:12

13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth on men:Select Job 4:13

14Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.Select Job 4:14

15Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp.Select Job 4:15

16It stood still, but I could not discerne the forme thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voyce, saying,Select Job 4:16

17Shall mortall man be more iust then God? shall a man bee more pure then his maker?Select Job 4:17

18Behold, hee put no trust in his seruants; and his Angels hee charged with folly:Select Job 4:18

19Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth.Select Job 4:19

20They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it.Select Job 4:20

21Doeth not their excellencie which is in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.Select Job 4:21