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Job 4 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Eliphaz’s First Response to Job

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:1 - Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2 - “Will you be patient and let me say a word?
For who could keep from speaking out?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:3 - “In the past you have encouraged many people;
you have strengthened those who were weak.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:4 - Your words have supported those who were falling;
you encouraged those with shaky knees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:5 - But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart.
You are terrified when it touches you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:6 - Doesn’t your reverence for God give you confidence?
Doesn’t your life of integrity give you hope?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:7 - “Stop and think! Do the innocent die?
When have the upright been destroyed?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:8 - My experience shows that those who plant trouble
and cultivate evil will harvest the same.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:9 - A breath from God destroys them.
They vanish in a blast of his anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:10 - The lion roars and the wildcat snarls,
but the teeth of strong lions will be broken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:11 - The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:12 - “This truth was given to me in secret,
as though whispered in my ear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:13 - It came to me in a disturbing vision at night,
when people are in a deep sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:14 - Fear gripped me,
and my bones trembled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:15 - A spirit[fn] swept past my face,
and my hair stood on end.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:16 - The spirit stopped, but I couldn’t see its shape.
There was a form before my eyes.
In the silence I heard a voice say,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:17 - ‘Can a mortal be innocent before God?
Can anyone be pure before the Creator?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:18 - “If God does not trust his own angels
and has charged his messengers with foolishness,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:19 - how much less will he trust people made of clay!
They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:20 - They are alive in the morning but dead by evening,
gone forever without a trace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:21 - Their tent-cords are pulled and the tent collapses,
and they die in ignorance.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Or wind; also in 4:16.
Or its wind sent shivers up my spine.
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