4:1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: ² 

4:2 “If someone ³  should attempt ⁴  a word with you,

will you be impatient? ⁵ 

But who can refrain from speaking ⁶ ?

4:3 Look, ⁷  you have instructed ⁸  many;

you have strengthened ⁹  feeble hands. ¹⁰ 

4:4 Your words have supported ¹¹  those

who stumbled, ¹² 

and you have strengthened the knees

that gave way. ¹³ 

4:5 But now the same thing ¹⁴  comes to you,

and you are discouraged; ¹⁵ 

it strikes you,

and you are terrified. ¹⁶ 

4:6 Is not your piety ¹⁷  your confidence, ¹⁸ 

and your blameless ways your hope? ¹⁹ 

4:7 Call to mind now: ²⁰ 

Who, ²¹  being innocent, ever perished? ²² 

And where were upright people ²³  ever destroyed? ²⁴ 

4:8 Even as I have seen, ²⁵  those who plow ²⁶  iniquity ²⁷ 

and those who sow trouble reap the same. ²⁸ 

4:9 By the breath ²⁹  of God they perish, ³⁰ 

and by the blast ³¹  of his anger they are consumed.

4:10 There is ³²  the roaring of the lion ³³ 

and the growling ³⁴  of the young lion,

but the teeth of the young lions are broken. ³⁵ 

4:11 The mighty lion ³⁶  perishes ³⁷  for lack of prey,

and the cubs of the lioness ³⁸  are scattered.

4:12 “Now a word was secretly ³⁹  brought ⁴⁰  to me,

and my ear caught ⁴¹  a whisper ⁴²  of it.

4:13 In the troubling thoughts ⁴³  of the dreams ⁴⁴  in the night

when a deep sleep ⁴⁵  falls on men,

4:14 a trembling ⁴⁶  gripped me – and a terror! –

and made all my bones shake. ⁴⁷ 

4:15 Then a breath of air ⁴⁸  passes ⁴⁹  by my face;

it makes ⁵⁰  the hair of my flesh stand up.

4:16 It stands still, ⁵¹ 

but I cannot recognize ⁵²  its appearance;

an image is before my eyes,

and I hear a murmuring voice: ⁵³ 

4:17 “Is ⁵⁴  a mortal man ⁵⁵  righteous ⁵⁶  before ⁵⁷  God?

Or a man pure ⁵⁸  before his Creator? ⁵⁹ 

4:18 If ⁶⁰  God ⁶¹  puts no trust in ⁶²  his servants ⁶³ 

and attributes ⁶⁴  folly ⁶⁵  to his angels,

4:19 how much more to those who live in houses of clay, ⁶⁶ 

whose foundation is in the dust,

who are crushed ⁶⁷  like ⁶⁸  a moth?

4:20 They are destroyed ⁶⁹  between morning and evening; ⁷⁰ 

they perish forever ⁷¹  without anyone regarding it. ⁷² 

4:21 Is not their excess wealth ⁷³  taken away from them? ⁷⁴ 

They die, ⁷⁵  yet without attaining wisdom. ⁷⁶