NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
The Blue Letter Bible

Job 4 :: New International Version (NIV)

toggle collapse
Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Eliphaz

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:1 - Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2 - “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:3 - Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:4 - Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:5 - But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:6 - Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:7 - “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Where were the upright ever destroyed?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:9 - At the breath of God they perish; at the blast of his anger they are no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:10 - The lions may roar and growl, yet the teeth of the great lions are broken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:11 - The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:12 - “A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:13 - Amid disquieting dreams in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:14 - fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:15 - A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:16 - It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:17 - ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:18 - If God places no trust in his servants, if he charges his angels with error,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who are crushed more readily than a moth!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:20 - Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces; unnoticed, they perish forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:21 - Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’
NIV

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.


See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the NIV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
 [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV

Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan