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Job 4:1-5:27 — Eliphaz's First Speech

Job.4.1-5.27

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: ²If one tries to speak a word to you, will you grow weary? But who can hold back from speaking? ³Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. ⁴Your words have lifted up the stumbling, and you have made firm knees that were buckling. ⁵But now it has come to you, and you are weary; it touches you, and you are dismayed. ⁶Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? ⁷Remember, please: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where have the upright been cut off? ⁸As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap it. ⁹By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. ¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions are broken. ¹¹The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. ¹²Now a word was stealthily brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it. ¹³Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, ¹⁴fear came upon me, and trembling, and it made all my bones shake. ¹⁵Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh bristled. ¹⁶It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form was before my eyes. There was silence, and then I heard a voice: ¹⁷Can a mortal be righteous before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? ¹⁸Behold, he puts no trust in his servants, and he charges his angels with error. ¹⁹How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth ! ²⁰From morning to evening they are crushed; without anyone taking notice, they perish forever. ²¹Is not their tent-cord pulled up within them? They die, and without wisdom.

Chapter 5

¹Call now: is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? ²For vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple. ³I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling. ⁴His children are far from help ; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them. ⁵The hungry eat his harvest and take it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after their wealth. ⁶For trouble does not come out from the dust, and toil does not sprout from the ground. ⁷But man is born to trouble, as sparks fly upward. ⁸But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause, ⁹who does great things beyond searching out, wonders without number; ¹⁰who gives rain on the face of the earth and sends water on the open fields; ¹¹who sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety; ¹²who frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success; ¹³who catches the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the devious is carried headlong; ¹⁴by day they meet with darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night. ¹⁵But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth , and from the hand of the strong. ¹⁶So there is hope for the poor, and injustice shuts its mouth. ¹⁷Behold, blessed is the man whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. ¹⁸For he wounds, and he binds up; he crushes, and his hands heal. ¹⁹In six troubles he will deliver you, and in seven no evil will touch you. ²⁰In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. ²¹You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you will not fear destruction when it comes. ²²At destruction and famine you will laugh, and you will not fear the beasts of the earth. ²³For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. ²⁴You will know that your tent is at peace, and you will inspect your dwelling and find nothing missing. ²⁵You will know that your offspring are many, and your descendants like the grass of the earth. ²⁶You will come to the grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season. ²⁷Behold, this we have searched out; so it is. Hear it, and you, know it for yourself.

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4/11/2026

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