Job 4

About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,SelectedJob 4:1Ask

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

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

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

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

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?SelectedJob 4:6Ask

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, saying,SelectedJob 4:16Ask

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

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

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?SelectedJob 4:19Ask

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

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

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