Job 4 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 In reply, Eliphaz from Teman answered: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 |Will you get offended if somebody tries to talk to you? Who can keep from speaking at a time like this? “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 Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble 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 A word from you has supported those who have stumbled, and has strengthened faltering 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 it's your turn, and you're the one who is worn out! Now it's striking you, and you're dismayed! 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 |Your fear of God has been your confidence, hasn't it? The integrity of your life has been your hope, hasn't it? 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 Now please think: Who has ever perished when they're innocent? Where have the upright 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 It's been my experience that those who plow the soil of iniquity and those who sow the seed of trouble will reap their harvest! 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 They perish by the breath of God; they are consumed by the storm that is his anger. 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 lioness may roar, and the lion cub may growl; but even the ivory teeth of the full grown lion are broken. 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 Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that's when the lion cubs are 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 |A message was confided to me; my ear caught a whisper of it. “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 Disquieting thoughts from dreams at night; when deep sleep falls on everyone. 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 A fear fell upon me, along with trembling that caused all my bones to shake in terror. dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake. fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
15 A spirit glided past me and made the hair on my skin to bristle. 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 It remained standing, but I couldn't recognize its appearance. A form appeared before my eyes; At first there was silence, and then this voice: 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 Can a mortal person be more righteous than God? Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of 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 |Indeed, since he doesn't trust his servants, since he charges his angels with error, 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 less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a 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 They are defeated between morning and evening; they perish forever—and no one notices! 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 Their wealth perishes with them, doesn't it? They die, and do so without having wisdom, don't they?| 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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