New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job: | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: |
2“Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out? | 2Should anyone try to speak with you when you are exhausted? Yet who can keep from speaking? |
3“In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak. | 3Indeed, you have instructed many and have strengthened weak hands. |
4Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees. | 4Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling and braced the knees that were buckling. |
5But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you. | 5But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. |
6Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope? | 6Isn't your piety your confidence, and the integrity of your life your hope? |
7“Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed? | 7Consider: who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed? |
8My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same. | 8In my experience, those who plow injustice and those who sow trouble reap the same. |
9A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger. | 9They perish at a single blast from God and come to an end by the breath of His nostrils. |
10The lion roars and the wildcat snarls, but the teeth of strong lions will be broken. | 10The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl, but the fangs of young lions are broken. |
11The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered. | 11The strong lion dies if it catches no prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. |
12“This truth was given to me in secret, as though whispered in my ear. | 12A word was brought to me in secret; my ears caught a whisper of it. |
13It came to me in a disturbing vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep. | 13Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep descends on men, |
14Fear gripped me, and my bones trembled. | 14fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shake. |
15A spirit swept past my face, and my hair stood on end. | 15A wind passed by me, and I shuddered with fear. |
16The spirit stopped, but I couldn’t see its shape. There was a form before my eyes. In the silence I heard a voice say, | 16A figure stood there, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes. I heard a quiet voice: |
17‘Can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’ | 17"Can a person be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?" |
18“If God does not trust his own angels and has charged his messengers with foolishness, | 18If God puts no trust in His servants and He charges His angels with foolishness, |
19how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth. | 19how much more those who dwell in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth! |
20They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace. | 20They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish forever while no one notices. |
21Their tent-cords are pulled and the tent collapses, and they die in ignorance. | 21Are their tent cords not pulled up? They die without wisdom. |
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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