Job 4 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived? “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking? “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
3 Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands. Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
4 Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees. Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
5 But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed. But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed. But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
6 Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways? Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope? Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
7 Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed? “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off? “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
8 In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them, As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same. As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
9 perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit. By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed. At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away. The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken. The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
11 The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered. The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper. “Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it. “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep, Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
14 fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified. dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
15 And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up. A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up. A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
16 There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze. It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice: It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
17 Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker? ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker? Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
18 Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection. Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error; If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
19 How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth? how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth. how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
20 From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing. Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it. Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
21 But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’ Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
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