{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:38:08.005Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":4,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"If we assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Your words have upheld him that was falling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But now it is come on you, and you faint; it touches you, and you are troubled."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a little thereof."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Does not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 4 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 4](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/4 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}