(NLT) Job 4 : 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied to Job:
(NLT) Job 4 : 2 "Will you be patient and let me say a word? For who could keep from speaking out?
(NLT) Job 4 : 3 "In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak.
(NLT) Job 4 : 4 Your words have supported those who were falling; you encouraged those with shaky knees.
(NLT) Job 4 : 5 But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you.
(NLT) Job 4 : 6 Doesn't your reverence for God give you confidence? Doesn't your life of integrity give you hope?
(NLT) Job 4 : 7 "Stop and think! Do the innocent die? When have the upright been destroyed?
(NLT) Job 4 : 8 My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.
(NLT) Job 4 : 9 A breath from God destroys them. They vanish in a blast of his anger.
(NLT) Job 4 : 10 The lion roars and the wildcat snarls, but the teeth of strong lions will be broken.
(NLT) Job 4 : 11 The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.
(NLT) Job 4 : 12 "This truth was given to me in secret, as though whispered in my ear.
(NLT) Job 4 : 13 It came to me in a disturbing vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep.
(NLT) Job 4 : 14 Fear gripped me, and my bones trembled.
(NLT) Job 4 : 15 A spirit swept past my face, and my hair stood on end.
(NLT) Job 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,
(NLT) Job 4 : 17 'Can a mortal be innocent before God? Can anyone be pure before the Creator?'
(NLT) Job 4 : 18 "If God does not trust his own angels and has charged his messengers with foolishness,
(NLT) Job 4 : 19 how much less will he trust people made of clay! They are made of dust, crushed as easily as a moth.
(NLT) Job 4 : 20 They are alive in the morning but dead by evening, gone forever without a trace.
(NLT) Job 4 : 21 Their tent-cords are pulled and the tent collapses, and they die in ignorance.