Job 4:12-21

12“Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.

13In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

14a trembling gripped me – and a terror! – and made all my bones shake.

15Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

16It stands still, but I cannot recognize its appearance; an image is before my eyes, and I hear a murmuring voice:

17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

18If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

19how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.