Job 4章 ESV | 微读圣经

Eliphaz Speaks: The Innocent Prosper

1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

2“If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?

Yet who can keep from speaking?

3Behold, you have instructed many,

and you have 4:3 Isa. 35:3; [Heb. 12:12]strengthened the weak hands.

4Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,

and you have 4:4 [See ver. 3above]made firm the feeble knees.

5But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;

it touches you, and you are dismayed.

64:6 ch. 1:1Is not your fear of God4:6 Hebrew lacks of God your 4:6 ch. 31:24; Prov. 3:26confidence,

and the integrity of your ways your hope?

7“Remember: 4:7 [Ps. 37:25]who that was innocent ever perished?

Or where were the upright cut off?

8As I have seen, those who 4:8 Hos. 10:13; [Ps. 7:14; Prov. 22:8; Gal. 6:7, 8]plow iniquity

and sow trouble reap the same.

9By 4:9 Isa. 30:33the breath of God they perish,

and by 4:9 ch. 15:30; Ex. 15:8; Ps. 18:15; [Isa. 11:4; 2 Thess. 2:8]the blast of his anger they are consumed.

10The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion,

4:10 Ps. 58:6; [ch. 29:17; Ps. 3:7]the teeth of the young lions are broken.

11The strong lion perishes for lack of prey,

and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

12“Now a word was brought to me stealthily;

my ear received 4:12 ch. 26:14the whisper of it.

13Amid 4:13 ch. 20:2thoughts from 4:13 ch. 33:15; Gen. 2:21; 15:12; 1 Sam. 26:12; Isa. 29:10visions of the night,

when 4:13 ch. 33:15; Gen. 2:21; 15:12; 1 Sam. 26:12; Isa. 29:10deep sleep falls on men,

14dread came upon me, and trembling,

which made all my bones shake.

15A spirit glided past my face;

the hair of my flesh stood up.

16It stood still,

but I could not discern its appearance.

4:16 Num. 12:8A form was before my eyes;

there was silence, then I heard 4:16 [1 Kgs. 19:12]a voice:

174:17 ch. 9:2; 10:4; 25:4; 32:2‘Can mortal man be in the right before4:17 Or more than; twice in this verse God?

Can a man be pure before his Maker?

18Even in his servants 4:18 ch. 15:15he puts no trust,

and his angels he charges with error;

19how much more those who dwell in houses of 4:19 ch. 10:9; 13:12; 33:6; Isa. 64:8; 2 Cor. 4:7; 5:1clay,

whose foundation is in 4:19 Gen. 2:7; 3:19; 18:27the dust,

who are crushed like4:19 Or before4:19 [ch. 13:28]the moth.

20Between 4:20 [Ps. 90:5, 6; Isa. 38:12] morning and evening they are beaten to pieces;

they perish forever 4:20 [Isa. 42:25; 57:1]without anyone regarding it.

21Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them,

4:21 ch. 36:12; Prov. 5:23; 10:21; [Hos. 4:6]do they not die, and that without wisdom?’

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