| Chapter 4 |
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Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, |
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"If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking? |
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Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands. |
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Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees. |
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But now it is come to you, and you faint; It touches you, and you are troubled. |
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Isn`t your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope? |
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"Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off? |
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According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, And sow trouble, Reap the same. |
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By the breath of God they perish, By the blast of his anger are they consumed. |
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The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, The teeth of the young lions, are broken. |
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The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad. |
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"Now a thing was secretly brought to me, My ear received a whisper of it. |
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In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, |
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Fear came on me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake. |
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Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up. |
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It stood still, but I couldn`t discern the appearance of it; A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying, |
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`Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? |
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Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error. |
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How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! |
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Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it. |
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Isn`t their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.` |