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Job 4
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
2If a word were essayed to thee, wouldest thou be grieved? But who can refrain from speaking?
2If we begin to speak to thee, perhaps thou wilt take it ill; but who can withhold the words he hath conceived?
3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands;
3Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands:
4Thy words have upholden him that was stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees:
4Thy words have confirmed them that were staggering, and thou hast strengthened the trembling knees:
5But now it is come upon thee, and thou grievest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
5But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath touched thee, and thou art troubled.
6Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?
6Where is thy fear, thy fortitude, thy patience, and the perfection of thy ways?
7Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?
7Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?
8Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity and sow mischief, reap the same.
8On the contrary, I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
9By the breath ofGod they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils are they consumed.
9Perishing by the blast of God, and consumed by the spirit of his wrath.
10The roar of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken;
10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken:
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
11The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
12Now to me a word was secretly brought, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.
12Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.
13In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men: —
13In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
14Fear came on me, and trembling, and made all my bones to shake;
14Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:
15And a spirit passed before my face — the hair of my flesh stood up —
15And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
16It stood still; I could not discern the appearance thereof: a form was before mine eyes; I heard a slight murmur and a voice:
16There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.
17Shall [mortal] man be more just thanGod? Shall a man be purer than his Maker?
17Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18Lo, he trusteth not his servants, and his angels he chargeth with folly:
18Behold, they that serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he found wickedness:
19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth!
19How much more shall they that dwell in houses of clay, who have an earthly foundation, be consumed as with the moth?