Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper 1 ULT And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 ULT “If a word is tried with you, will you tire? But to refrain from a word, who is able? BSB BSB: “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 ULT Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened weak hands. BSB BSB: Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4 ULT Your words have upheld the one stumbling, and buckling knees you have strengthened. BSB BSB: Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5 ULT But now it comes to you and you tire; it touches you and you panic. BSB BSB: But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 ULT { Is} not your fear your confidence, your hope, even the integrity of your ways? BSB BSB: Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7 ULT Remember, now: Who, he{ being} innocent, has perished? And when were the righteous destroyed? BSB BSB: Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 ULT According to what I have seen, the ones plowing misery and sowing trouble reap it. BSB BSB: As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 ULT By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his nose they cease{ to be}. BSB BSB: By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
10 ULT The roar of the lion! The voice of the fierce lion! But 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 ULT The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. BSB BSB: The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 ULT Now a word was confided to me, and my ear received a whisper of it. BSB BSB: Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 ULT In troubling thoughts from visions of the night, in the falling of deep sleep upon men, BSB BSB: In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 ULT fear happened to me, and trembling, and it frightened all my bones. BSB BSB: fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
15 ULT And a spirit was gliding before my face; the hair of my flesh was bristling. BSB BSB: Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
16 ULT It was standing still, but I was not recognizing its appearance. An image{ was} in front of my eyes.{ There was} silence, then I heard a voice: 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 ULT ‘Will a man be more righteous than God? If a man will 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 ULT Behold, he does not trust in his servants, and he charges his angels with folly. BSB BSB: If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,
19 ULT How much less dwellers in houses of clay that{ have} their foundation in the dust! They crumble them before 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 ULT From morning to evening they are destroyed; they perish forever without{ anyone} noticing. BSB BSB: They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 ULT Is not their tent cord pulled up 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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