4:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4:16It 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,

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

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

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

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

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

5:1Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

5:2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

5:3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

5:5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

5:6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

5:9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

5:10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

5:11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

5:14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

5:15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

5:19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

5:20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

5:21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

5:22At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

5:23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

5:24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

5:25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

5:26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

5:27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.