Part 3

18:003:020 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

18:003:021 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

18:003:022 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

18:003:023 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

18:003:024 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

18:003:025 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

18:003:026 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

18:004:001 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

18:004:002 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

18:004:003 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

18:004:004 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

18:004:005 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

18:004:006 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

18:004:007 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

18:004:008 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

18:004:009 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.

18:004:010 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

18:004:011 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

18:004:012 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

18:004:013 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

18:004:014 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

18:004:015 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

18:004:016 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

18:004:017 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

18:004:018 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

18:004:019 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

18:004:020 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.

18:004:021 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.