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Job 4

¹Job, will you be annoyed if I speak? I can't keep quiet any longer.

³You have taught many people and given strength to feeble hands.

⁴When someone stumbled, weak and tired, your words encouraged him to stand.

⁵Now it's your turn to be in trouble, and you are too stunned to face it.

⁶You worshiped God, and your life was blameless; and so you should have confidence and hope.

⁷Think back now. Name a single case where someone righteous met with disaster.

⁸I have seen people plow fields of evil and plant wickedness like seed; now they harvest wickedness and evil.

⁹Like a storm, God destroys them in his anger.

¹⁰The wicked roar and growl like lions, but God silences them and breaks their teeth.

¹¹Like lions with nothing to kill and eat, they die, and all their children are scattered.

¹²Once a message came quietly, so quietly I could hardly hear it.

¹³Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.

¹⁴I trembled and shuddered; my whole body shook with fear.

¹⁵A light breeze touched my face, and my skin crawled with fright.

¹⁶I could see something standing there; I stared, but couldn't tell what it was. Then I heard a voice out of the silence:

¹⁷"Can anyone be righteous in the sight of God or be pure before his Creator?

¹⁸God does not trust his heavenly servants; he finds fault even with his angels.

¹⁹Do you think he will trust a creature of clay, a thing of dust that can be crushed like a moth?

²⁰We may be alive in the morning, but die unnoticed before evening comes.

²¹All that we have is taken away; we die, still lacking wisdom."