| 章 |
| 4:1 |
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
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| 4:2 |
[If] we essay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can refrain from speaking?
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| 4:3 |
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
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| 4:4 |
Thy words have upheld him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
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| 4:5 |
But now it hath come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
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| 4:6 |
[Is] not [this] thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
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| 4:7 |
Remember, I pray thee, who [ever] perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off;
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| 4:8 |
Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
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| 4:9 |
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
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| 4:10 |
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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| 4:11 |
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
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| 4:12 |
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a small sound of it.
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| 4:13 |
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men.
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| 4:14 |
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
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| 4:15 |
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
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| 4:16 |
It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image [was] before my eyes, [there was] silence, and I heard a voice, [saying],
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| 4:17 |
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
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| 4:18 |
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
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| 4:19 |
How much less [in] them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the dust, [who] are crushed before the moth?
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| 4:20 |
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].
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| 4:21 |
Doth not their excellence [which is] in them depart? they die, even without wisdom.
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