Job Chapter 4

 Job 4

The first submission from a friend, Eliphaz 

1 Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says,

2 can we try/test this matter? Because I am tired (leah) of withholding words - 

3 - which will seize the hands of the weak ones and reform/instruct them in abundance.

4 (so that ) the knees that bend will rise up, and by my words, the tottering ones will be emboldened/encouraged-

5 and it will come to touch the wearied and the troubled ones.

6 Is there fear/reverence, integrity/innocence, hope and trust/confidence (kislev-9th month) in your way? 

7 did you remember any innocent one that ever lose his things? And what place, (when and how), has any upright person denied of his things?

8 just look at those who devise toiling/labouring and panting/exertion of self in silence; they can only reap what they sow;

9 and when their nostrils lost the Spirit of the Extremely MIGHTY God (Eloah eloah), their breathing shall cease:

10 As the roaring of lion, and the sound of the teeth of jackal can be a detestable to the infidels (in a walled village) - - 

11 - -   the same stout lioness will perish for lack of prey/fresh meat, even though, she could scatter the (complacent) children of Laish. 

12 steal a hint/a tiny piece from (my) spoken-words and received it into (your) ears. 

13 - when mortal-man is in a deep sleep, he could fall into a divided-opinions from a dream of the night;

14 which call out for sudden alarms that scare in abundance unto trembling of bones 

15 but, in the presence of the SPIRIT, it is like hairs standing erect on the flesh; because, things will change;

16 if a view is unfamiliar, stand still with the image before your eyes, and in silence, you will hear a voice. 

17 -  If a valiant-man must perform/does things to be purified, how will the Extremely Mighty ONE (Eloah eloah) just JUSTIFIES (tsadaq) a mortal-man?

18 even some angels, who  were put/ordained to be servants, are believed in being praised/are braggadocio;

19 who will be crumbled like grass in  fire in HIS presence. How much less those who dwell in a house of clay, with their foundation is in the dust? 

20 they are put/ordained to perish at the ultimate end, and to be broken down between morning and evening. 

21 so, why starting a journey, only to die by excess/too much wisdom?