{
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "kind": "Chapter",
  "metadata": {
    "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z",
    "language": "en",
    "book": "job",
    "chapter": 4
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 4,
    "bookSlug": "job",
    "bookCode": "JOB",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
    "lines": [],
    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-4:1",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.1",
        "text": "Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-4:2",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.2",
        "text": "If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-4:3",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.3",
        "text": "Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-4:4",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.4",
        "text": "Thy words have upholden him that was falling, And thou hast made firm the feeble knees."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-4:5",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.5",
        "text": "But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-4:6",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.6",
        "text": "Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, [And] the integrity of thy ways thy hope?"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-4:7",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.7",
        "text": "Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-4:8",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.8",
        "text": "According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, And sow trouble, reap the same."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-4:9",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.9",
        "text": "By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of his anger are they consumed."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-4:10",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.10",
        "text": "The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-4:11",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.11",
        "text": "The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-4:12",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.12",
        "text": "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, And mine ear received a whisper thereof."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-4:13",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.13",
        "text": "In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-4:14",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.14",
        "text": "Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-4:15",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.15",
        "text": "Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-4:16",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.16",
        "text": "It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance       thereof; A form was before mine eyes: [There was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],"
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-4:17",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.17",
        "text": "Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-4:18",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.18",
        "text": "Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants; And his angels he chargeth with folly:"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-4:19",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.19",
        "text": "How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-4:20",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.20",
        "text": "Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-4:21",
        "verseRef": "Job.4.21",
        "text": "Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom."
      }
    ]
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/4",
    "book": "/v1/library/books/job/",
    "chapters": "/v1/library/books/job/chapters/",
    "library": "/v1/library/",
    "schema": "/v1/schema/book/"
  }
}