Job 4 - New International Version (NIV)

Eliphaz

4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite(A) replied:

2 “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
But who can keep from speaking?(B)
3 Think how you have instructed many,(C)
how you have strengthened feeble hands.(D)
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled;(E)
you have strengthened faltering knees.(F)
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;(G)
it strikes(H) you, and you are dismayed.(I)
6 Should not your piety be your confidence(J)
and your blameless(K) ways your hope?

7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(L)
Where were the upright ever destroyed?(M)
8 As I have observed,(N) those who plow evil(O)
and those who sow trouble reap it.(P)
9 At the breath of God(Q) they perish;
at the blast of his anger they are no more.(R)
10 The lions may roar(S) and growl,
yet the teeth of the great lions(T) are broken.(U)
11 The lion perishes for lack of prey,(V)
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.(W)

12 “A word(X) was secretly brought to me,
my ears caught a whisper(Y) of it.(Z)
13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people,(AA)
14 fear and trembling(AB) seized me
and made all my bones shake.(AC)
15 A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.(AD)
16 It stopped,
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice:(AE)
17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?(AF)
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?(AG)
18 If God places no trust in his servants,(AH)
if he charges his angels with error,(AI)
19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,(AJ)
whose foundations(AK) are in the dust,(AL)
who are crushed(AM) more readily than a moth!(AN)
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
unnoticed, they perish forever.(AO)
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,(AP)
so that they die(AQ) without wisdom?’(AR)

Cross references

  1. Job 4:1 : S Ge 36:11; Job 15:1; 22:1
  2. Job 4:2 : Job 32:20; Jer 4:19; 20:9
  3. Job 4:3 : Dt 32:2; Job 29:23; Hos 6:3
  4. Job 4:3 : Job 26:2; Ps 71:9; Isa 13:7; 35:3; Zep 3:16; Heb 12:12
  5. Job 4:4 : Job 16:5; 29:16, 25; Isa 1:17
  6. Job 4:4 : Job 29:11, 15; Isa 35:3; Jer 31:8; Heb 12:12
  7. Job 4:5 : S Jos 1:9
  8. Job 4:5 : Ru 1:13; Job 1:11; 19:21; 30:21; Ps 38:2; Isa 53:4
  9. Job 4:5 : Job 6:14; Pr 24:10
  10. Job 4:6 : 2Ki 18:19; Ps 27:3; 71:5; Pr 3:26
  11. Job 4:6 : S Ge 6:9
  12. Job 4:7 : Job 5:11; 36:7; Ps 41:12; 2Pe 2:9
  13. Job 4:7 : Job 8:20; Ps 37:25; 91:9-10; Pr 12:21; 19:23
  14. Job 4:8 : Job 5:3; 15:17
  15. Job 4:8 : Jdg 14:18; Job 5:6; 15:35; Ps 7:14; Isa 59:4
  16. Job 4:8 : Ps 7:15; 9:15; Pr 11:18; 22:8; Isa 17:11; Hos 8:7; 10:13; Gal 6:7-8
  17. Job 4:9 : S Ex 15:10; S Job 41:21; 2Th 2:8
  18. Job 4:9 : S Lev 26:38; Job 40:13; Isa 25:7
  19. Job 4:10 : Ps 22:13
  20. Job 4:10 : Ps 17:12; 22:21; Pr 28:15
  21. Job 4:10 : Job 5:15; 29:17; 36:6; 38:15; Ps 35:10; 58:6
  22. Job 4:11 : Dt 28:41; Job 27:14; 29:17; Ps 34:10; 58:6; Pr 30:14
  23. Job 4:11 : Job 5:4
  24. Job 4:12 : ver 17-21; Job 32:13; Jer 9:23
  25. Job 4:12 : Job 26:14
  26. Job 4:12 : Job 33:14
  27. Job 4:13 : Job 33:15
  28. Job 4:14 : Job 21:6; Ps 48:6; 55:5; 119:120, 161; Jer 5:22; Hab 3:16; S 2Co 7:15
  29. Job 4:14 : Jer 23:9; Da 10:8; Hab 3:16
  30. Job 4:15 : Da 5:6; 7:15, 28; 10:8; Mt 14:26
  31. Job 4:16 : S 1Ki 19:12
  32. Job 4:17 : Job 9:2; 13:18; Ps 143:2
  33. Job 4:17 : Job 8:3; 10:3; 14:4; 15:14; 21:14; 25:4; 31:15; 32:22; 35:10; 36:3, 13; 37:23; 40:19; Ps 18:26; 51:5; 119:73; Pr 20:9; Ecc 7:20; Isa 51:13; Mal 2:10; Ac 17:24
  34. Job 4:18 : Heb 1:14
  35. Job 4:18 : Job 15:15; 21:22; 25:5
  36. Job 4:19 : Job 10:9; 33:6; Isa 64:8; Ro 9:21; 2Co 4:7; 5:1
  37. Job 4:19 : Job 22:16
  38. Job 4:19 : S Ge 2:7
  39. Job 4:19 : Job 5:4
  40. Job 4:19 : Job 7:17; 15:16; 17:14; 25:6; Ps 22:6; Isa 41:14
  41. Job 4:20 : Job 14:2, 20; 15:33; 20:7; 24:24; Ps 89:47; 90:5-6; Jas 4:14
  42. Job 4:21 : Job 8:22; Isa 38:12
  43. Job 4:21 : Jn 8:24
  44. Job 4:21 : Job 18:21; 36:12; Pr 5:23; Jer 9:3

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