Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper 1 UEB Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 UEB If anyone tries to speak with you, will you be impatient? But who can stop himself from speaking? BSB BSB: “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 UEB See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened weak hands. BSB BSB: Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4 UEB Your words have supported him who was falling; you have made feeble knees firm. BSB BSB: Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5 UEB But now trouble has come to you, and you are weary; 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 UEB Is not your fear your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? BSB BSB: Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7 UEB Think about this, please: Who has ever perished when innocent? Or when were the upright people ever cut off? BSB BSB: Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 UEB According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap it. BSB BSB: As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 UEB By the breath of God they perish; by the blast of his anger they are consumed. BSB BSB: By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
10 UEB The roaring of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions—they are broken. BSB BSB: The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 UEB The old lion perishes for lack of victims; the cubs of the lioness are scattered everywhere. BSB BSB: The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 UEB Now a certain matter was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper about it. BSB BSB: Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 UEB Then came thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on people. BSB BSB: In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 UEB It was at night when fear and trembling came upon me, and all my bones shook. BSB BSB: fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
15 UEB Then a spirit passed before my face, and the hair of my flesh stood up. BSB BSB: Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
16 UEB The spirit stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, and I heard a voice that said, 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 UEB "Can a mortal man be more righteous than God? Can 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 UEB See, if God puts no trust in his servants; if he accuses his angels of folly, BSB BSB: If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
19 UEB how much more is this true of those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed sooner than a 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 UEB Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish forever without anyone noticing them. BSB BSB: They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 UEB Are not their tent cords plucked up among them? They die; they die without wisdom. BSB BSB: Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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