1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: | TOSK |
2 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be wearied? Yet who can keep from speaking? | TOSK |
3 Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. | TOSK |
4 Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling. | TOSK |
5 But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed. | TOSK |
6 Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope? | TOSK |
7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed? | IP | TOSK |
8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same. | TOSK |
9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed. | TOSK |
10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken. | TOSK |
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. | TOSK |
12 Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it. | TOSK |
13 In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men, | TOSK |
14 fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder. | TOSK |
15 Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled. | TOSK |
16 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance; a form loomed before my eyes, and I heard a whispering voice: | TOSK |
17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker? | TOSK |
18 If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error, | TOSK |
19 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth! | TOSK |
20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; unnoticed, they perish forever. | TOSK |
21 Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’ | TOSK |