Job 4 - Easy To Read Version

³ Job, you have taught many people.\par You gave strength to weak hands.\par

⁴ Your words helped people\par who were ready to fall.\par You gave strength to people\par who couldn’t stand by themselves.\par

⁵ But now trouble comes to you,\par and you are discouraged.\par Trouble hits you,\par and you are upset!\par

⁶ You worship God.\par You trust him.\par You are a good man.\par So let that be your hope.\par

⁷ Job, think about this:\par No innocent person was ever destroyed.\par Good people are never destroyed.\par

⁸ I have seen some troublemakers\par and people who make life hard.\par But they are always punished!\par

⁹ God’s punishment kills those people.\par God’s anger destroys them.\par

¹⁰ The bad people roar and growl like lions.\par But God makes the bad people be quiet,\par and God breaks their teeth.\par

¹¹ Yes, those bad people are like lions\par that can’t find animals to kill.\par They die and their children wander away.\par

¹² “A message was brought to me in secret.\par My ears caught a whisper of it.\par

¹³ Like a bad dream in the night,\par it ruined my sleep.\par

¹⁴ I was afraid, and shook.\par All my bones shook!\par

¹⁵ A ghost passed by my face.\par The hair on my body stood up!\par

¹⁶ The spirit stood still,\par but I could not see what it was.\par A shape stood before my eyes,\par and there was silence.\par Then I heard a very quiet voice:\par

¹⁷ ‘A person can’t be more right than God.\par Man can’t be more pure than his Maker.\par

¹⁸ Look, God can’t even trust\par his heavenly servants.\par God sees problems even in his angels.\par

¹⁹ So surely people are worse!\par People live in houses of clay. {\cf2\super [11]} \par The foundations of these houses of clay\par are in the dirt.\par They are crushed to death\par more easily than a moth!\par

²⁰ People die from dawn to sunset,\par and no one even notices.\par They die and are gone forever.\par

²¹ The ropes of their tent are pulled up,\par