Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper 1 AKJV Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 AKJV If we assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? BSB BSB: “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 AKJV Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. BSB BSB: Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4 AKJV Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees. BSB BSB: Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5 AKJV But now it is come on you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled. BSB BSB: But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 AKJV Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways? BSB BSB: Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7 AKJV Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? BSB BSB: Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 AKJV Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. BSB BSB: As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 AKJV By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. BSB BSB: By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
10 AKJV The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. BSB BSB: The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 AKJV The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad. BSB BSB: The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 AKJV Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little thereof. BSB BSB: Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 AKJV In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, BSB BSB: In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 AKJV Fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. BSB BSB: fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
15 AKJV Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: BSB BSB: Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
16 AKJV It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, BSB BSB: It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice:
17 AKJV Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? BSB BSB: ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
18 AKJV Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: BSB BSB: If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
19 AKJV How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? BSB BSB: how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
20 AKJV They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. BSB BSB: They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 AKJV Does not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. BSB BSB: Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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