Job 4 · Clearspring

Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper

¹And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --+ ²Hath one tried a word with thee? --Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?+ ³Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.+ ⁴The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.+ ⁵But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.+ ⁶Is not thy reverence thy confidence? Thy hope--the perfection of thy ways?+ ⁷Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?+ ⁸As I have seen--ploughers of iniquity, And sowers of misery, reap it!+ ⁹From the breath of God they perish, And from the spirit of His anger consumed.+ ¹⁰The roaring of a lion, And the voice of a fierce lion, And teeth of young lions have been broken.+ ¹¹An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.+ ¹²And unto me a thing is secretly brought, And receive doth mine ear a little of it.+ ¹³In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,+ ¹⁴Fear hath met me, and trembling, And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.+ ¹⁵And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;+ ¹⁶It standeth, and I discern not its aspect, A similitude is over-against mine eyes, Silence! and a voice I hear:+ ¹⁷`Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?+ ¹⁸Lo, in His servants He putteth no credence, Nor in His messengers setteth praise.'+ ¹⁹Also--the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)+ ²⁰From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.+ ²¹Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!+

Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper

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