Bible Language Cross References for the verse Job 4:18 in NET
- 1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:
- 2 "Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
- 3 Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?
- 4 But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.
- 5 Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.
- 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
- 7 "Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
- 8 Do you listen in on God's secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
- 9 What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand?
- 10 The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.
- 11 Are God's consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?
- 12 Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
- 13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
- 14 What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- 15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,
- 16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
- 17 "I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,
- 18 what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,
- 19 to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.
- 20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.
- 21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.
- 22 He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;
- 23 he wanders about� food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
- 24 Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,
- 25 for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
- 26 defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!
- 27 Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,
- 28 he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.
- 29 He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.
- 30 He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God's mouth.
- 31 Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.
- 32 Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.
- 33 Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.
- 34 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.
- 35 They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception."