Job 4

English Tyndale 1537

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1Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite and said unto him:

2If we begin to commune(common) with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent, but who can withhold himself from speaking?

3Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands.

4Thy words have set up those that were fallen, thou hast refreshed the weak knees.

5But now that the plague is come upon thee, thou shrinkest away: now that it hath touched thy self, thou art faint hearted.

6Is not this thy fear,(Where is now thy fear of God) thy steadfastness, thy patience, and the perfectness of thy ways?(life)

7Consider (I pray thee) who ever perished being an innocent? Or, when were the godly destroyed?

8As I have seen them that plow vanity(wickedness) and sow malice(mischief) reap the same.

9With the blast of God did they perish, and with the breath of his anger consumed they away.(For when God bloweth upon them, they perish, and are destroyed thorow the blast of his wrath.)

10The roaring of the lion, the voice(crying) of the lioness, and the teeth of the lions'(lyos) whelps are broken.

11The (greate) lion perisheth, for lack of(because he can get no) prey and the lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

12And unto me was the word hid, and mine ear hath received a little thereof.(There is spoken unto me a thing in councell, which hath given a terrible sound in mine eare)

13In the fantasies and thoughts of the visions of the night, when sleep cometh on men:(with a vision in the night, when men are fallen a slepe.)

14Fear came upon me and dread and made all my bones to shake.

15And when the wind passed by before my presence it made the hairs of my flesh stand(stode) up.

16He stood there and I knew not his face, an image there was before me and there was stillness,(Then stode there one before me, whose face I knewe not: an ymage there was, and the wether was still) so that I heard this voice.

17Shall man be more just than God? Or shall man be purer than his maker?(May a man be justified before God? May there any man be judged to be clean, by reason of his own works?)

18Behold there is no trust to his servants, and in his angels hath he found frowardness.(Behold, he hath found unfaithfulness among his own servants, and proud disobedience among his angels.)

19How much more in them(then shall they) that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is but earth: which shall be consumed by the moth?(be moth eaten)

20They shall be smitten(destroyed) from morning unto the evening: yea they shall perish everlastingly, and no man think thereon.(or ever they be aware:)

21Is not their dignity taken away with them, they shall die and not in wisdom.(and be taken away so clene, that none of them shall remain, but be dead, or ever they be aware of it.)

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