Job 4:12-17

Easy-to-Read Version

¹² “I happened to hear a message.
    My ears caught a whisper of it.
¹³ Like a bad dream^[a] in the night,
    it ruined my sleep.
¹⁴ It frightened me,
    and I trembled down to my bones.
¹⁵ A spirit passed by my face.
    The hair on my body stood up!
¹⁶ The spirit stood still,
    but I could not see what it was.
A shape stood before my eyes,
    and there was silence.
    Then I heard a quiet voice:
¹⁷ ‘A person cannot be more right than God.
    People cannot be more pure than their Maker.