Verse 2
Job 4:2
Literal Standard Version
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“Has one tried a word with you? You are weary! And who is able to keep in words?
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֲ/נִסָּ֬ה דָבָ֣ר אֵלֶ֣י/ךָ תִּלְאֶ֑ה וַ/עְצֹ֥ר בְּ֝/מִלִּ֗ין מִ֣י יוּכָֽל
English Translation
Has a thing been tried against you? Who can restrain in words?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 4 Context
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And Eliphaz the Temanite answers and says:
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“Has one tried a word with you? You are weary! And who is able to keep in words?
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Behold, you have instructed many, || And feeble hands you make strong.
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Your words raise up the stumbling one, || And you strengthen bowing knees.
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But now, it comes to you, || And you are weary; It strikes to you, and you are troubled.
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Is your reverence not your confidence? Your hope—the perfection of your ways?
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Now remember, || Who, being innocent, has perished? And where have the upright been cut off?
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As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, || And sowers of misery, reap it!
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From the breath of God (Elohim) they perish, || And from the spirit of His anger are consumed.
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The roaring of a lion, || And the voice of a fierce lion, || And teeth of young lions have been brok...
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An old lion is perishing without prey, || And the whelps of the lioness separate.
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And a thing is secretly brought to me, || And my ear receives a little of it.
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In thoughts from visions of the night, || In the falling of deep sleep on men,
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Fear has met me, and trembling, || And the multitude of my bones caused to fear.
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And a spirit passes before my face, || The hair of my flesh stands up;
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It stands, and I do not discern its aspect, || A likeness is before my eyes, || Silence! And I hear...
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Is mortal man more righteous than God (Elohim)? Is a man cleaner than his Maker?
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Behold, He puts no credence in His servants, || Nor sets praise in His messengers.
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Also—the inhabitants of houses of clay || (Whose foundation is in the dust, || They bruise them befo...
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From morning to evening are beaten down, || Without any regarding, they perish forever.
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Has their excellence not been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!”
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