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Job 4

Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2009 (HCSB)

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¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

² Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?

³ Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened ⓐ weak hands.

⁴ Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. ⓑ

⁵ But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes ⓒ you, and you are dismayed.

⁶ Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life [1] your hope? ⓓ

⁷ Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed? ⓔ

⁸ In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble ⓕ reap the same. ⓖ

⁹ They perish at a single blast ⓗ from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils. ⓘ

¹⁰ The lion may roar and the fierce lion ⓙ growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken. ⓚ

¹¹ The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. ⓛ

¹² A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it. ⓜ

¹³ Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, ⓝ when deep sleep ⓞ descends on men,

¹⁴ fear and trembling came over me ⓟ and made all my bones shake.

¹⁵ A wind [2] passed by me, and I shuddered with fear. [3]

¹⁶ A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice:

¹⁷ “Can a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?” ⓠ

¹⁸ If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness, [4] ⓡ

¹⁹ how much more those who dwell in clay houses, ⓢ whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!

²⁰ They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices. ⓣ

²¹ Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom. ⓤ

#	HCSB
1	Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2	Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3	Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened ⓐ weak hands.
4	Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. ⓑ
5	But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes ⓒ you, and you are dismayed.
6	Isn’t your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life [1] your hope? ⓓ
7	Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed? ⓔ
8	In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble ⓕ reap the same. ⓖ
9	They perish at a single blast ⓗ from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils. ⓘ
10	The lion may roar and the fierce lion ⓙ growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken. ⓚ
11	The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. ⓛ
12	A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it. ⓜ
13	Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, ⓝ when deep sleep ⓞ descends on men,
14	fear and trembling came over me ⓟ and made all my bones shake.
15	A wind [2] passed by me, and I shuddered with fear. [3]
16	A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice:
17	“Can a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?” ⓠ
18	If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness, [4] ⓡ
19	how much more those who dwell in clay houses, ⓢ whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth!
20	They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices. ⓣ
21	Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom. ⓤ

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