{"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/drb/job/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T18:18:00.093Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":4,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":21},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said: "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill, but who can withhold the words he hath conceived? "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands: "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees: "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: it hath touched thee, and thou art troubled. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways? "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed? "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them, "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions are broken: "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth as it were received the veins of its whisper. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men, "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted: "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind: "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker? "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Behold they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness: "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth? "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And they that shall be left, shall be taken away from them: they shall die, and not in wisdom. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 4 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 4](https://primebible.com/drb/job/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/4 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}