Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper 1 CPDV But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said: BSB BSB: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 CPDV If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived? BSB BSB: “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 CPDV Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands. BSB BSB: Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4 CPDV Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees. BSB BSB: Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5 CPDV But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed. BSB BSB: But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 CPDV Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways? BSB BSB: Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7 CPDV Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed? BSB BSB: Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 CPDV In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them, BSB BSB: As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 CPDV perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit. BSB BSB: By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
10 CPDV The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away. BSB BSB: The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 CPDV The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered. BSB BSB: The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 CPDV Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper. BSB BSB: Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 CPDV In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep, BSB BSB: In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 CPDV fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified. BSB BSB: fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
15 CPDV And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up. BSB BSB: Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
16 CPDV There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze. 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 CPDV Should man be justified in relation to God, or will 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 CPDV Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection. BSB BSB: If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
19 CPDV How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like 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 CPDV From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing. BSB BSB: They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 CPDV But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom. BSB BSB: Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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