[4:1] Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:
[4:2] “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?
[4:3] Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
[4:4] Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
[4:5] But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
[4:6] Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
[4:7] “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
[4:8] As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
[4:9] By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.
[4:10] The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.
[4:11] The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
[4:12] “Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.
[4:13] Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
[4:14] dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.
[4:15] A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
[4:16] It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:
[4:17] ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
[4:18] Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;
[4:19] how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
[4:20] Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
[4:21] Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’
[5:1] “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
[5:2] Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
[5:3] I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
[5:4] His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
[5:5] The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
[5:6] For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
[5:7] but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
[5:8] “As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,
[5:9] who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
[5:10] he gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;
[5:11] he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
[5:12] He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
[5:13] He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
[5:14] They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
[5:15] But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty.
[5:16] So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
[5:17] “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
[5:18] For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.
[5:19] He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no evil shall touch you.
[5:20] In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
[5:21] You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
[5:22] At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
[5:23] For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
[5:24] You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
[5:25] You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.
[5:26] You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
[5:27] Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.”