4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

4:2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking:

4:3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands:

4:4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees:

4:5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled:

4:6 Is not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways:

4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off:

4:8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same:

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

4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken:

4:11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion' s whelps are scattered abroad:

4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof:

4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men:

4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake:

4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

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:

4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker:

4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

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:

4:20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding:

4:21 Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom: