| New Living Translation | King James Bible |
| 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job: | 1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, |
| 2“Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out? | 2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking? |
| 3“In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak. | 3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. |
| 4Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees. | 4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees. |
| 5But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you. | 5But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. |
| 6Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope? | 6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways? |
| 7“Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed? | 7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? |
| 8My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same. | 8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. |
| 9A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger. | 9By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. |
| 10The lion roars and the wildcat snarls, but the teeth of strong lions will be broken. | 10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
| 11The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered. | 11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad. |
| 12“This truth was given to me in secret, as though whispered in my ear. | 12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. |
| 13It came to me in a disturbing vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep. | 13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, |
| 14Fear gripped me, and my bones trembled. | 14Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. |
| 15A spirit swept past my face, and my hair stood on end. | 15Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: |
| 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, | 16It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, |
| 17‘Can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’ | 17Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? |
| 18“If God does not trust his own angels and has charged his messengers with foolishness, | 18Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: |
| 19how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth. | 19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth? |
| 20They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace. | 20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it. |
| 21Their tent-cords are pulled and the tent collapses, and they die in ignorance. | 21Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom. |
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