Chapter 4

¹ Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Job 4:1

² Hast thou been often spoken to in distress?

Job 4:2

³ For whereas thou hast instructed many,

Job 4:3

⁴ And hast supported the failing with words,

Job 4:4

⁵ Yet now [that] pain has come upon thee, and touched thee, thou art troubled.

Job 4:5

⁶ Is not thy fear [founded] in folly,

Job 4:6

⁷ Remember then who has perished, being pure?

Job 4:7

⁸ Accordingly as I have seen men plowing barren places,

Job 4:8

⁹ They shall perish by the command of the Lord,

Job 4:9

¹⁰ The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness,

Job 4:10

¹¹ The old lion has perished for want of food,

Job 4:11

¹² But if there had been any truth in thy words,

Job 4:12

¹³ But [as when] terror falls upon men,

Job 4:13

¹⁴ Horror and trembling seized me,

Job 4:14

¹⁵ And a spirit came before my face;

Job 4:15

¹⁶ I arose and perceived it not:

Job 4:16

¹⁷ What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord?

Job 4:17

¹⁸ Whereas he trusts not in his servants,

Job 4:18

¹⁹ But [as for] them that dwell in houses of clay,

Job 4:19

²⁰ And from morning to evening they no longer exist:

Job 4:20

²¹ For he blows upon them, and they are withered:

Job 4:21