### Darby's English Translation

Job 3

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 4
| And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
| If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?
| Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands;
| Thy words have upholden him that was stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees:
| But now it is come upon thee, and thou grievest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
| Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?
| Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?
| Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.
| By the breath of +God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils are they consumed.
| The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;
| The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
| Now to me a word was secretly brought, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.
| In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men: --
| Fear came on me, and trembling, and made all my bones to shake;
| And a spirit passed before my face -- the hair of my flesh stood up --
| It stood still; I could not discern the appearance thereof: a form was before mine eyes; I heard a slight murmur and a voice:
| Shall [mortal] man be more just than +God? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
| Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:
| How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
| From morning to evening are they smitten: without any heeding it, they perish for ever.
| Is not their tent-cord torn away in them? they die, and without wisdom.

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