Job 4

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:	1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
2 If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?	2 If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
3 Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.	3 Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:
4 Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees.	4 Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
5 But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed.	5 But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
6 Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?	6 Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?
7 Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?	7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
8 In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,	8 On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
9 perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.	9 Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away.	10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken:
11 The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered.	11 The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
12 Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.	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 In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep,	13 In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
14 fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified.	14 Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
15 And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up.	15 And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
16 There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze.	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 Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?	17 Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18 Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection.	18 Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:
19 How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?	19 How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the 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.	20 From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.
21 But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom.	21 And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom.