{"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/web/job/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:19:46.235Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"|Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"|Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it."},{"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 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 couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then 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 puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Isn't their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.'"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 4 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 4](https://primebible.com/web/job/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/4 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}