Job 4

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Eliphaz of Teman spoke next. He said:	1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
2 If we say something to you, wil you bear with us? Who in any case could refrain from speaking now?	2 If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
3 You have schooled many others, giving strength to feeble hands;	3 Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:
4 your words supported any who wavered and strengthened every failing knee.	4 Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
5 And now your turn has come, and you lose patience, at the first touch on yourself you are overwhelmed!	5 But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
6 Does not your piety give you confidence, and your integrity of life give you hope?	6 Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?
7 Can you recal anyone guiltless that perished? Where then have the honest been wiped out?	7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
8 I speak from experience: those who plough iniquity and sow disaster, reap just that.	8 On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
9 Under the breath of God, they perish: a blast of his anger, and they are destroyed;	9 Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
10 the lion's roars, his savage growls, like the fangs of a lion cub, are broken off.	10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken:
11 The lion dies for lack of prey and the lioness's whelps are dispersed.	11 The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
12 I have received a secret revelation, a whisper has come to my ears;	12 Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper.
13 by night when dreams confuse the mind and slumber lies heavy on everyone,	13 In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
14 a shiver of horror ran through me and fil ed al my bones with fright.	14 Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
15 A breath slid over my face, the hairs of my body bristled.	15 And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
16 Someone stood there -- I did not know his face, but the form stayed there before my eyes. Silence --then I heard a voice,	16 There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:
17 'Can a mortal seem upright to God, would anybody seem pure in the presence of his Maker?	17 Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18 God cannot rely even on his own servants, even with his angels he finds fault.	18 Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:
19 What then of those who live in houses of clay, who are founded on dust?	19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?
20 They are crushed as easily as a moth, between morning and evening they are ground to powder. Theyvanish for ever, with no one to bring them back.	20 From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.
21 Their tent-peg is snatched from them, and they die devoid of wisdom.'	21 And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.