Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper 1 WBS Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 WBS If we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?BSB BSB: “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 WBS Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. BSB BSB: Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
4 WBS Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. BSB BSB: Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
5 WBS But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth 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 WBS Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?BSB BSB: Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?
7 WBS Remember, I pray thee, 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 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS The old lion perisheth 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 WBS Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it. BSB BSB: Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 WBS In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men. BSB BSB: In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 WBS Fear came upon 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 WBS 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 WBS It stood still, but I could not discern its form: 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 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who 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 WBS 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 WBS Doth not their excellence which is in them depart? they die, even without wisdom. BSB BSB: Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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