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# Job 4

Job 4 is chapter 4 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 21 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Eliphaz charges Job with impatience, and pretends that God never afflicts the innocent.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 4 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. But Eliphaz the Themanite, answering, said:
2. If we start to speak to you, perhaps you will take it badly, but who can hold back the words he has conceived?
3. Behold, you have taught many, and you have strengthened weary hands.
4. Your words have reassured the wavering, and you have fortified the trembling knees.
5. But now the scourge has overcome you, and you falter. It has touched you, and you are disturbed.
6. Where is your reverence, your fortitude, your patience, and the perfection of your ways?
7. Consider this, I beg you: who ever perished being innocent? Or when have the righteous been destroyed?
8. In fact, I have instead seen those who work iniquity and who sow resentments, reap them,
9. perishing by the breath of God, and being consumed by the wrath of his spirit.
10. The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of young lions have been worn away.
11. The tiger has perished because it does not have prey, and the young lions have been scattered.
12. Furthermore, a word was spoken to me in secret, and, as if by theft, my ears received the pulse of its whisper.
13. In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep,
14. fear and trembling seized me and all my bones were terrified.
15. And when a spirit passed before me, the hair on my body stood up.
16. There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze.
17. Should man be justified in relation to God, or will a man be more pure than his Maker?
18. Behold, those who serve him are not steadfast, and in his angels he finds imperfection.
19. How much more will those who live in houses of clay, which have an earthly foundation, be consumed like the moth?
20. From morning all the way to evening, they will be cut down, and because no one understands, they will be destroyed without ceasing.
21. But those who are left behind will be taken away from them; they will die, and not in wisdom.

## Job 4 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Respondens autem Eliphaz Themanites, dixit:
2. Si cœperimus loqui tibi, forsitan moleste accipies; sed conceptum sermonem tenere quis poterit?
3. Ecce docuisti multos, et manus lassas roborasti;
4. vacillantes confirmaverunt sermones tui, et genua trementia confortasti.
5. Nunc autem venit super te plaga, et defecisti; tetigit te, et conturbatus es.
6. Ubi est timor tuus, fortitudo tua, patientia tua, et perfectio viarum tuarum?
7. Recordare, obsecro te, quis umquam innocens periit? aut quando recti deleti sunt?
8. Quin potius vidi eos qui operantur iniquitatem, et seminant dolores, et metunt eos,
9. flante Deo perisse, et spiritu iræ ejus esse consumptos.
10. Rugitus leonis, et vox leænæ, et dentes catulorum leonum contriti sunt.
11. Tigris periit, eo quod non haberet prædam, et catuli leonis dissipati sunt.
12. Porro ad me dictum est verbum absconditum, et quasi furtive suscepit auris mea venas susurri ejus.
13. In horrore visionis nocturnæ, quando solet sopor occupare homines,
14. pavor tenuit me, et tremor, et omnia ossa mea perterrita sunt;
15. et cum spiritus, me præsente, transiret, inhorruerunt pili carnis meæ.
16. Stetit quidam, cujus non agnoscebam vultum, imago coram oculis meis, et vocem quasi auræ lenis audivi.
17. Numquid homo, Dei comparatione, justificabitur? aut factore suo purior erit vir?
18. Ecce qui serviunt ei, non sunt stabiles, et in angelis suis reperit pravitatem;
19. quanto magis hi qui habitant domos luteas, qui terrenum habent fundamentum, consumentur velut a tinea?
20. De mane usque ad vesperam succidentur; et quia nullus intelligit, in æternum peribunt.
21. Qui autem reliqui fuerint, auferentur ex eis; morientur, et non in sapientia.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 17: These are the words which Eliphaz had heard from an angel, which, ver. 15, he calls a spirit.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).