Job 4
Christian Standard Bible
First Series of Speeches
Eliphaz Speaks
4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
2 Should anyone try to speak with you
when you are exhausted?
Yet who can keep from speaking?
3 Indeed, you have instructed many
and have strengthened(A) weak hands.
4 Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling
and braced the knees that were buckling.(B)
5 But now that this has happened to you,
you have become exhausted.
It strikes(C) you, and you are dismayed.
6 Isn’t your piety your confidence,
and the integrity of your life[a] your hope?(D)
7 Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent?
Where have the honest[b] been destroyed?(E)
8 In my experience, those who plow injustice
and those who sow trouble(F) reap the same.(G)
9 They perish at a single blast(H) from God
and come to an end by the breath of his nostrils.(I)
10 The lion may roar and the fierce lion(J) growl,
but the teeth of young lions are broken.(K)
11 The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.(L)
12 A word was brought to me in secret;
my ears caught a whisper of it.(M)
13 Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,(N)
when deep sleep(O) comes over men,
14 fear and trembling came over me(P)
and made all my bones shake.
15 I felt a draft[c] on my face,
and the hair on my body stood up.
16 A figure stood there,
but I could not recognize its appearance;
a form loomed before my eyes.
I heard a whispering voice:
17 “Can a mortal be righteous before God?
Can a man be more pure than his Maker?” (Q)
18 If God puts no trust in his servants
and he charges his angels with foolishness,[d](R)
19 how much more those who dwell in clay houses,(S)
whose foundation is in the dust,
who are crushed like a moth!
20 They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk;
they perish forever while no one notices.(T)
21 Are their tent cords not pulled up?
They die without wisdom.(U)
Job 4
Magandang Balita Biblia
Ang Unang Sagutan(A)
4 Sinabi ni Elifaz na Temaneo,
2 “Huwag mo sanang ikasamâ ng loob ang aking sasabihin,
di ko na kayang manahimik, di na ako makapagpigil.
3 Marami na ring tao ang iyong naturuan,
at mahihinang kamay ay iyong natulungan.
4 Salita mo'y nagpalakas sa nanlulupaypay,
sa mahina't pagod pangaral mo'y umalalay.
5 Ngayong ikaw na ang dumaranas ng matinding kahirapan,
nawawalan ka ng pag-asa at parang nais mong mabuwal?
6 Di ba't may takot ka sa Diyos at masunurin sa kanya?
Kaya dapat magtiwala ka at magkaroon ng pag-asa.
7 “Isipin mong mabuti: mayroon bang walang sala na napahamak ang buhay,
mayroon bang mabuting tao na dumanas ng kasawian?
8 Ang alam ko'y ang mga naghahasik ng kasamaan
ay sila ring nag-aani ng kaguluhan.
9 Kaya naman ang Diyos sa tindi ng galit sa kanila, parang dinaanan ng bagyo sila'y pinupuksa niya.
10 Mga masasamang tao'y parang leong umuungal,
ngunit pinatatahimik sila ng Diyos, ngipin nila'y tinatanggal.
11 Para silang leong walang mabiktima, namamatay sa gutom,
at nagkakawatak-watak ang mga anak nila.
12 “Minsan, ako ay may narinig,
salitang ibinulong sa aking pandinig.
13 Sa(B) lalim ng hatinggabi parang ako'y nanaginip kung kailan ang tao'y mahimbing na naiidlip.
14 Ako'y sinakmal ng matinding takot,
ako'y kinilabutan at nangatog ang tuhod.
15 Malamig na hangin, dumampi sa mukha ko,
sa takot ay nagtayuan ang aking balahibo.
16 May nakita akong doon ay nakatayo,
ngunit di ko mapagwari ang kanyang anyo.
Maya-maya, narinig ko ang isang tinig:
17 ‘Maaari bang maging matuwid ang isang tao sa paningin ng Diyos?
Sa harap ng Lumikha, mayroon bang malinis ang loob?
18 Mga lingkod niya sa langit di niya pinagkakatiwalaan,
sa kanya mismong mga anghel may nakikita siyang kamalian.
19 Paano pa siya magtitiwala sa taong mula sa alabok?
Tulad ng gamu-gamo, ito ay marupok.
20 Ang tao'y buháy ngayon, ngunit hindi tiyak kung mamaya;
siya pala ay patay na, di pa alam nitong madla.
21 Ang lahat niyang taglay sa kanya'y mawawala,
sa kanyang pagkamatay kulang pa rin sa unawa.’
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