Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper 1 DRA Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said: BSB BSB: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 DRA If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived? BSB BSB: “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 DRA Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands: BSB BSB: Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4 DRA Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees: BSB BSB: Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5 DRA But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled. BSB BSB: But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 DRA Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways? BSB BSB: Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7 DRA Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed? BSB BSB: Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 DRA On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them, BSB BSB: As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 DRA Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath. BSB BSB: By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
10 DRA The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of 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 DRA The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad. BSB BSB: The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 DRA Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper. BSB BSB: Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 DRA In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men, BSB BSB: In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 DRA Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted: BSB BSB: fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
15 DRA And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up. BSB BSB: Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
16 DRA There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind: 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 DRA Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or 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 DRA Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness: BSB BSB: If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
19 DRA How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with 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 DRA From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever. BSB BSB: They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 DRA And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom. BSB BSB: Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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