Job 4:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence; then I heard a voice:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ [The spirit] stood still, but I could not discern the appearance of it. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, and then I heard a voice, saying,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ 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,

Common English Bible

¹⁶ It stopped. I didn’t recognize its visible form, although a figure was in front of my eyes. Silence! Then I heard a voice:

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ There appeared an image before my eyes, someone whose face I did not recognize, and I heard a voice like a gentle breeze.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes: and I heard the voice as it were of a gentle wind:

Job 4:16 Cross References

1 Kings 19:12

and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire a sound of sheer silence.

Job 4:15

A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.

Job 4:17

‘Can mortals be righteous before God? Can humans be pure before their Maker?