Job 4:12-21

Living Bible

¹² “This truth was given me in secret, as though whispered in my ear. ¹³ It came in a nighttime vision as others slept. ¹⁴ Suddenly, fear gripped me; I trembled and shook with terror, ¹⁵ as a spirit passed before my face—my hair stood up on end. ¹⁶ I felt the spirit’s presence, but couldn’t see it standing there. Then out of the dreadful silence came this voice:

¹⁷ “‘Is mere man more just than God? More pure than his Creator?’

^18-19 “If God cannot trust his own messengers (for even angels make mistakes), how much less men made of dust, who are crushed to death as easily as moths! ²⁰ They are alive in the morning, but by evening they are dead, gone forever with hardly a thought from anyone. ²¹ Their candle of life is snuffed out. They die and no one cares.