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CHAP. IV.

1 Eliphaz reprooueth Iob for want of religion. 7 He teacheth Gods iudgements to bee not for the righteous, but for the wicked. 12 His fearefull vision, to humble the excellencie of Creatures before God.

¹Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and said,

²If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? But who can withhold himselfe from speaking?²

³Beholde, Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weake hands.

⁴Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.⁴

⁵But now it is come vpon thee, and thou faintest, it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

⁶Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?

⁷Remember, I pray thee, who euer perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

⁸Euen as I haue seene, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickednsse, reape the same.⁸

⁹By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.⁹

¹⁰The roaring of the Lyon, and the voice of the fierce Lyon, and the teeth of the yong Lyons are broken.

¹¹The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.

¹²Nowe a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine eare receiued a litle thereof.¹²

¹³In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth on men:

¹⁴Feare came vpon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.¹⁴

¹⁵Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp.

¹⁶It stood still, but I could not discerne the forme thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voyce, saying,¹⁶

The diuers ends of godly and wicked.

¹⁷Shall mortall man be more iust then God? shall a man bee more pure then his maker?

¹⁸Behold, hee put no trust in his seruants; and his Angels hee charged with folly:¹⁸

¹⁹Howe much lesse on them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth.¹⁹

²⁰They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it.²⁰

²¹Doeth not their excellencie which is in them, goe away? they die, euen without wisedome.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Job Chapter 4

² Hebr. a word. , Heb. who can refraine from words?
⁴ Hebr. the bowing knees.
⁸ Prou.22.8 ose 10.13.
⁹ That is, by his anger, as Esa.30. 33.
¹² Heb. by stealth.
¹⁴ Heb. met mee. , Heb. the multitude of my bones.
¹⁶ Or, I heard a still voyce.
¹⁸ Chap. 15. 15. 2.pet. 2.4. , Or, nor in his Angels, in whom he put light.
¹⁹ 2.Cor.5.1.
²⁰ Heb. beaten in pieces.

* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania